Frailty of Prostate Cancer Patients Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapy: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This study aimed to explore the existing literature on frailty experienced by patients with prostate cancer (PC) receiving androgen deprivation therapy (ADT).

Materials and methods

Database and manual searches were conducted to identify relevant studies published in English, with no limitation on the year of publication, according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines. Four databases-PubMed, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, and CINAHL-were used for database searches and reference lists, related journals, and Google Scholar were used for manual searches.

Results

A total of 12 studies were analyzed for this scoping review. Of these, only 2 were intervention studies, and 1 was a randomized cont

SUBMITTER: Park J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10949022 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature