

JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC ONCOLOGY
Editorial Board
Editor- in-Chief
Arti Hurria
Director, Cancer and Aging Research Program
City of Hope
Duarte, CA, USA
Shabbir Alibhai
University Health Network
Toronto, Canada
Kimlin T. Ashing-Giwa
City of Hope
Duarte, CA, USA
Riccardo Audisio
University of Liverpool
Prescot, UK
Lodovico Balducci
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center USF
Tampa, FL, USA
Roberto Bernabei
Catholic University of Sacred Heart
Rome, Italy
Gouri S. Bhattacharyya
Fortis Hospital
Kolkata, India
Laura Biganzoli
Hospital of Prato
Prato, Italy
Etienne Brain
Institut Curie - Hôpital René Huguenin
Saint Cloud, France
Kathryn Bylow
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI, USA
K.L Cheung
University of Nottingham Derby,
United Kingdom
Harvey Cohen
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, USA
Herve Cure
Institut Jean Godinot
Reims, France
William Dale
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
Jean-Pierre Droz
Centre Lyon Berard
Lyon, France
William Ershler
National Institutes of Health
Baltimore, MD, USA
Martine Extermann
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center USF
Tampa, FL, USA
Cesare Gridelli
SG Moscati Hospital
Avellino, Italy
Cary Gross
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
Niraj J. Gusani
Penn State College of Medicine
Hershey, PA, USA
Marije E. Hamaker
Diakonessenhuis
Zeist, The Netherlands
Holly Holmes
The University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center
Houston, TX, USA
Michael Jaklitsch
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
M. Margaret Kemeny
Queens Hospital Center/Mt Sinai
Jamaica, NY, USA
Gretchen Kimmick
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, USA
Beatriz Korc
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, USA
Stuart Lichtman
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, USA
Silvio Monfardini
Don Gnocchi Foundation
Milan, Italy
Vicki Morrison
VA Medical Center
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Joanne Mortimer
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Duarte, CA, USA
Hyman Muss
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Arash Naeim
David Geffen School of Medicine,
University of California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Assistant to Editor-in-Chief
Vani Katheria
City of Hope
Duarte, CA, USA
Editorial Office
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geriatriconcology@elsevier.comChristian Nelson
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, USA
J.W.R. Nortier
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands
Cynthia Owusu
Case Western Reserve University School
of Medicine
Cleveland, OH, USA
Lazzaro Repetto
Sanremo Hospital Imperia,
Italy
Miriam Rodin
St. Louis University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA
Andrew Roth
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, USA
Benjamin Smith
The University of Texas MD
Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX, USA
Reinhard Stauder
Innsbruck Medical University
Innsbruck, Austria
Christopher Steer
Border Medical Oncology
Wodonga, Australia
Catherine Terret
Centre Léon Bérard Lyon, France
Edward (Ted) Trimble
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD, USA
Barbara L. van Leeuwen
University Medical Center
Groningen, The Netherlands
Louise Walter
VA Medical Center
San Francisco, CA, USA
Ulrich Wedding
Friedrich Schiller University
Jena, Germany
Gilbert Zulian
Hôpital de Bellerive (ex-Cesco)
Collonge-Bellerive, Switzerland
Deputy Editors
Siri Rostoft
Oslo University Hospital,
Oslo, Norway
Supriya Gupta Mohile
University of Rochester,
Rochester, NY, USA
Series Editors: Geriatrics for the
Oncologist
William Dale
University of Chicago School of
Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
Siri Rostoft
Oslo University Hospital,
Oslo, Norway
Associate Editors
Heidi Klepin
Wake Forest University School
of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Benjamin D. Smith
University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center
Houston, TX, USA
William Tew
Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center
New York, NY, USA
Tanya M. Wildes
Washington University School
of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Hans Wildiers
UZ Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
Founding Editor
Matti S. Aapro
Multidisciplinary Oncology
Institute, Clinique de Genolier
Genolier, Switzerland
Series Editors: Meet the Experts
Arti Hurria
Director, Cancer and Aging
Research Program
City of Hope
Duarte, CA, USA
Supriya Gupta Mohile
University of Rochester,
Rochester, NY, USA