What matters to #older #cancer #survivors? 1️⃣Close social relationships 2️⃣ HRQOL 3️⃣ Functional Independence These outcomes need to be considered for how we measure quality cancer care. #CancerRehab professionals are skilled to address each of these priorities. #SIOG2023

It’s the place to be!! Lots of interest in improving care for older adults with cancer! #gerionc #SIOG2023

Really interesting talk by Dr. Erika Ramsdale on how AI can be used in #gerionc Here’s how Chat-GPT defined AI (and as Homer Simpson!) and how to organize the talk #SIOG23 #SIOG2023

Another talk by a fellow Canadian 🇨🇦 - great talk by Rana Jin, nurse extraordinaire with the Princess Margaret Older Adults Cancer Clinic on Implementing Cognitive Screening in Clinical Practice #SIOG2023 #SIOG23

Crucial distinctions: 1. Decision-making 2. Capacity 3. Competency 4. Informed consent Every provider in #GeriOnc needs to know the differences! #SIOG2023

🌟Thrilled to extend our heartfelt congrats to the well-deserving winner of the 2024 #ASCO BJ Kennedy Geriatric Oncology Award William Dale, MD, PhD, FASCO! Your impactful contributions to the field of #GeriOnc are inspiring. Keep up the incredible work! Read More: bit.ly/3xcsDTM

When facing tradeoffs, many older patients prefer not to sacrifice cognition and function for living longer. We need to measure these outcomes in trials and research to help older adults decide what benefits to pursue and what risks to take. Cancer and Aging Research Group (CARG) #GeriOnc William Dale, MD, PhD, FASCO Enrique Soto

Amazing representation from Ottawa medical oncology at #ICRE2024 ⁦OttawaMedOnc⁩ ⁦Paul Wheatley-Price⁩

It’s been an amazing meeting and great to see such great turnout from coast to coast! #camo24

ATTN Canadian Association of Medical Oncologists MO members & trainees 🇨🇦 👇invite you to check out our Biennial Report report 📝…and see what CAMO has been doing to advance our mission of empowering you to advance cancer care 🌼 👋 if you’re a 🇨🇦 MO & not a member - pls DM me, happy to send u a copy & invite

#ASCO25 ASCO NEJM ✅ Exercise Saves Lives After Colon Cancer ➡️ come watch Dr Chris Booth present the results of the ph3 CO.21 CHALLENGE study - don’t walk, run! 🏃🏃🏻‍♂️🏃 Hall B1 430-6pm 🙏 to our patients, my GI group CCTG 🇨🇦 and our partner GI Cancer Institute and AGITG 🇦🇺🇳🇿for

#ASCO25 #plenary If the graph on the left is practice changing, the graph on the right is urgently practice changing. Cost to health systems-$15K to $18K a month vs $100-$150 a month. ATOMIC trial vs CHALLENGE trial.

We are hosting the next Canadian Geriatric Oncology Conference in beautiful Vancouver!!! We have an exciting agenda for the day ranging from how to implement and sustain geriatric oncology at your centre to our ever popular geriatric assessment workshop! #gerionc