The Older Patients and the Epidemiological Change after COVID-19 Pandemic. The Simplicity of the Complexity Management and the Personalization in Cancer Care

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A. Bellieni D. Fusco F. Benvenuto S. Bracci E. Villani B. Di Capua F. Marazzi L. Tagliaferri L. Balducci S. Monfardini V. Valentini Giuseppe Colloca

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Giuseppe Colloca
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy

A B S T R A C T

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has led us to imagine the current scenario as something terrible, disastrous, but temporary. However, history teaches us that an event of this magnitude can only evolve towards “new” normality, a new equilibrium, but it will only be reached through a transition that will last over the years. In this scenario, the term “frailty”, which is known to few, has become common. The need for healthcare that, alongside high specialization, focuses on the complexity of the individual is increasingly intense. Geriatric oncology probably represents the clearest example of how much the current scenario has impacted the health and social fields, as it involves frail adults with cancer. How to draw the future?

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Review Article

Publication history

Received: Mon 17, May 2021
Accepted: Tue 08, Jun 2021
Published: Tue 30, Aug 2022

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© 2023 Giuseppe Colloca. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.ACO.2021.01.01