Dr Tabassum Wadasadawala (Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India) and Dr Shivani Sable (Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India) discuss one-year mortality in older adults with breast cancer: prediction using different geriatric tools.

Routine clinical practice often overlooks formal geriatric assessments, vital for elderly patients.

This study focused on older breast cancer patients and used shorter assessment tools to predict one-year mortality.

The cohort had a median age of 70, with a 75% treatment completion rate.

The geriatric aid tool proved most effective in predicting mortality, highlighting the need for cancer-specific geriatric assessment tools tailored to specific populations.