Frailty and quality of life among older people with and without a cancer diagnosis: Findings from TOPICS-MDS

Noralie Geessink; Yvonne Schoon; Harry van Goor; Marcel Olde Rikkert; René Melis; on behalf of the TOPICS-MDS consortium

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0189648

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Frailty and quality of life among older people with and without a cancer diagnosis: Findings from TOPICS-MDS

Noralie Geessink,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Geriatric Medicine, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8777-7469

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Yvonne Schoon,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Geriatric Medicine, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Harry van Goor,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Marcel Olde Rikkert,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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René Melis ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Rene.Melis@radboudumc.nl

Affiliations Department of Geriatric Medicine, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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on behalf of the TOPICS-MDS consortium

¶Membership of the TOPICS-MDS consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.
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Frailty and quality of life among older people with and without a cancer diagnosis: Findings from TOPICS-MDS

Noralie Geessink,
Yvonne Schoon,
Harry van Goor,
Marcel Olde Rikkert,
René Melis,
on behalf of the TOPICS-MDS consortium

Published: December 15, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189648

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