Geriatric Assessment in Oncology Practice: Podcast with Supriya and William Dale
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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast
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Welcome to the Jerry Powell Podcast. This is Eric Quadera. This is Alex Smith. And Alex, there's somebody else in the room with us today.
We have a guest host with us today. We have Melissa Wong, who's a geriatric oncologist here at UCSF. Welcome to the Jerry Powell Podcast, Melissa.
Great. Thanks for having me.
Thanks for joining.
And we have two people on the call. We're going to be talking about geriatric assessments in oncology. Who are these two very special people, Alex?
We have Supriya. Oh, how do you pronounce your last name? I should have asked you. Mohile, who is director of geriatric oncology, the geriatric onk research program at the University of Rochester. Welcome to the JerryPell podcast.
Looking forward to this. Thank you for having me.
And we have a voice without a face because we can't get him on a webcam, but we've called him in. We have
We have William Dale, who is the chair of supportive care medicine at uh City of Hope, uh down in Los Angeles. Welcome to the Jerry Powell podcast, William.
Thank you. Delighted to be here from uh Hollywoodland.
Hollywoodland. Grammys are coming up, right? Or not Grammys, the uh Oscars. Right. Oscars Mm. Yeah, they're coming. Yeah, they're coming, everybody's a Everybody's
excited. We don't care about sports here.
Well, we're gonna be talking about a recent paper you published in Gem Oncology uh titled Communication with Older Patients with Cancer Using Geriatric Assessment. But before we go into the paper and thinking about geriatric assessment and oncology. We always start off with a song request. Do either of you have a song request for Alex?
Absolutely. Uh in honor of my move to the Southern California area, my favorite band, the Eagles, uh, Hotel California. Excellent.
On a dark desert highway. Cooling in my hair. Warm smell of cholitas rising up through the air. Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light. My heart grew heavy and my sight grew dim. I had to stop for the night. There she stood in the doorway, I heard the mission bell. And I was saying to myself, this could be heaven or this could be hell. Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way. There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say Welcome to the Hotel California. Join in any time of year, any time of year you can find it here. Plenty room at the Hotel California Such a lovely place, such a lovely place, such a love.
Alex could have gone off the entire entire podcast.
Snippet.
Or like stare away to heaven. I'm pretty sure Alex would just sing like the whole song. Because like that's a guitarist song. Oh yeah, yeah. Love it. Like every guitar playing person.
Uh I messed up that intro though. But uh whatever. We just wrote it. I think
he did a very nice job.
It was better in practice.
You got a you got a second attempt at the end. That's right. Yeah. Um, so maybe we'll we'll jump right into the the the article and the topic. Um Sapriya, I'm gonna turn to you. Like how did you get interested in this as a topic?
So uh geriatric uh oncology's cornerstone is really geriatric assessment. And many of us got interested as fellows when we were in oncology fellowships taking care of older adults with cancer and wondering how to improve care delivery in in Like geriatricians and you see older patients, they go through cancer treatment, they have functional issues, cognitive issues. Um, even fit older adults may have, you know, side effects that interfere with function. And then what we think of is how to adapt geriatric principles to oncology. And one of the tools that can do that is geriatric assessment. And so we now over the last, I would say, 10 to 15 years have studied the progression of geriatric assessment through many different kinds of oncology research and have evidence to show that it can impact clinical care.
The majority of cancer patients, right, that they're older. Is this like a a usual part of oncology fellowships where a geriatrics is like heavily integrated?
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