[Treatment Decision-Making in Elderly Cancer Patients: Principles, Challenges, and Evaluation Strategies].

The treatment decision-making process used by elderly cancer patients is crucial because, with advancing age, patients experience a decline in physical function and often face multiple comorbidities, reducing their tolerance to cancer treatments and increasing toxic reactions. Therefore, in considering multiple factors such as treatment effectiveness, quality of life, and survival time, the treatment of elderly cancer patients must take into account individualized factors and utilize relevant assessment tools to help minimize treatment-related risks. However, understanding and assessing treatment decisions by nursing staff regarding elderly patients are issues that have rarely been discussed.

Symptoms, distress, finances, social support, resource utilization, and unmet care needs of patients with gynecological cancer.

Purpose: This study explored the unmet care needs of gynecological cancer patients, including overall and subdomain needs (i.e., physical and daily living needs, psychological and emotional needs, care and support needs, and health-system and information needs), and related factors.

Immunotherapy-associated symptoms, distress, financial toxicity and unmet supportive care needs of patients with cancer.

Purpose: To examine the unmet care needs (i.e., overall needs and need subdomains [physical and daily living needs, psychological and emotional needs, care and support needs, and health-system and informational needs]) of patients with cancer undergoing immunotherapy alone or in combination with other anticancer therapies, as well as related influencing factors.