Frailty in Long-Term Prostate Cancer Survivors and Its Association With Quality of Life and Emotional Health
In a large German cohort, every third long-term prostate cancer survivor after radical prostatectomy was frail. The association of frailty with lower QoL and poorer mental health indicates the need for an integrated care approach including further geriatric assessment and possible interventions to improve health outcomes targeted to frail patients.
Authors
- Kathleen Herkommer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0339-3394)
- Valentin H. Meissner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7679-3658)
- Lukas Lunger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4392-3345)
- Andreas Dinkel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6587-1550)
- Matthias Jahnen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5895-2595)
- Donna P. Ankerst (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4229-2462)
- Stefan Schiele (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2054-9052)
- Jürgen E. Gschwend (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1812-5103)
- Kolja Imhof
Institutions
- TUM Klinikum (DE)
- Technical University of Munich (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
- Published
- 2024-12-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.6004/jnccn.2024.7066
- Citations
- 6
- Primary Topic
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.07