Monday Lunch Live with Professor Supriya Mohile

VCCC MONDAY LUNCH LIVE EVENT

Improving the care delivery for older patients with cancer

As the baby boomer generation ages, the number of older patients with cancer is also rising. But older patients tend to have more age-related vulnerabilities than their younger peers adding greater risk in their treatment. They are under-represented in clinical trials. In the US, fit older patients are less likely to receive evidence-based standard of care cancer treatment than younger patients, while older people with both cancer and comorbid conditions are too often treated with therapies with high toxicity rates and low likelihoods of benefit.

Despite the rapidly increasing number of older patients with cancer, most oncologists have received little geriatrics training, so common ageing-related conditions that influence outcomes are rarely detected.

Professor Supriya Mohile has conducted two large studies in the United States examining models of care for older patients with cancer; results are positive that these models of care improve communication between older adults, caregivers, and medical professionals. Professor Mohile will discuss results from these trials as well as ways to implement these models of care.

Professor Supriya Mohile

Supriya Mohile, MD, MS is a board-certified geriatrician and oncologist. She completed internship, residency and fellowships in hematology/oncology and geriatrics at University of Chicago Medical Center, where she also earned a Master's degree in health outcomes research. Professor Mohile's fellowship was funded by an American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and John Hartford Foundation initiative to train oncologists in the care of the elderly. Her research interests include the evaluation of patterns of care, health outcomes, and quality of life related to treatment for systemic cancer in older patients.

In 2013, Prof Mohile was awarded a Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute Award and a NCI R01 to evaluate whether geriatric assessment can improve outcomes of older patients with cancer. She directs the Specialized Oncology Care & Research in the Elderly (SOCARE) geriatric oncology clinic at the University of Rochester/Highland Hospital and is an integral member of the University of Rochester NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) Research Base. She leads the Cancer Care Delivery Research (CCDR) efforts in the Research Base and sits on the CCDR Steering Committee at the NCI. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Oncology and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Geriatric Oncology and is the Chair for the ASCO Geriatric Oncology Task Force and the ASCO Geriatric Oncology Clinical Guideline panel.

Monday 2 July 2018

VCCC Building, Level 7 Lecture Theatres

Light lunch served from 12.30pm

Presentation: 1-2pm

Can't join us in person? Register for the live webinar here.