Geriatric syndromes increased the nutritional risk in elderly cancer patients independently from tumoursite and metastatic status. The ELCAPA-05 cohort study

We highlighted, in elderly cancer patients, the high prevalence of malnutrition and that geriatrics syndromes (i.e. cognitive impairment, depressed mood and fall risk) were independent risk factors for malnutrition. Moreover, metastatic status was significantly much more strongly associated with malnutrition in non-digestive than digestive tumours.