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Galip Can Uyar: Telehealth-Delivered Geriatric Assessment Makes a Difference
Jun 13, 2025, 05:44

Galip Can Uyar: Telehealth-Delivered Geriatric Assessment Makes a Difference

Galip Can Uyar, Medical Oncologist at Etlik City Hospital, posted on X:

“Telehealth-Delivered Geriatric Assessment Makes a Difference!

The GAIN-S RCT in older adults with metastatic cancer showed:

  • High IADL: +1.8
  • Low Depression (GDS): –2.7
  • High Quality of life (FACT-G): +13.2
  • All in just 3 months — all statistically significant (p<.001).”

Title: Telehealth Geriatric Assessment and Supportive Care Intervention (GAIN-S) Program: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Authors: Cristiane Decat Bergerot, Paulo Gustavo Bergerot, Marianne Razavi, Marcos Vinicius da Silva França, Jonas Ribeiro Gomes da Silva, Jose Adolfo Cerveira, William Hiromi Fuzita, Andressa Cardoso de Azeredo, Gabriel Marques dos Anjos, Vitor Fiorin de Vasconcellos, Errol J. Philip, João Nunes de Matos Neto, Jorge Fernandes Canedo, Mariana Tosello Laloni, Carlos Gil Moreira Ferreira, Marco Murilo Buso, Sumanta K. Pal, Ryan Nipp, Areej El-Jawahri, Enrique Soto-Perez-de-Celis, William Dale

Read The Full Article at JNCCN.

Galip Can Uyar: Telehealth-Delivered Geriatric Assessment Makes a Difference

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