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ASCO 2018 | Elderly cancer patients who report symptoms have greater survival

Speaking from the American Society of Oncology (ASCO) 2018 Annual Meeting, held in Chicago, IL, Raúl Córdoba, MD, PhD, MS, of the Fundacion Jimenez Diaz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, describes an innovative trial of elderly patients with malignancies that investigated the effect of patients reporting their symptoms and adverse events while receiving chemotherapy.