an older person’s medical, psychological and functional geriatric assessment generally consists of a few major WORLD JOURNAL OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY

Full list of author information is available at the end of the articlecapability [1]. Current evidence regarding breast cancer is mainly ap-propriate to younger patients (≤65 years) as older patients are often excluded from clinical trials [2,3]. There is a need for further research focusing solely on older patients, or by stratification of patients by age, to allow for accurate treatment guidelines. components, including: medical assessment of current diagnoses, medications and nutritional status; assessment of physical function; psychological evaluation to deter-mine patient mentality and mood; and social and envir-onmental assessments [1]. Currently, CGA is not used routinely in breast can-cer patients worldwide; however, three main areas where CGA could potentially be implemented includ