TY - JOUR T1 - Supportive Care Requirements of Elderly Patients with Cancer Refer to Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital in 2023 A1 - Yu Uneno A1 - Tatsuya Morita A1 - Yukiko Watanabe A1 - Soichiro Okamoto A1 - Natsuki Kawashima A1 - Manabu Muto JF - Clinical Cancer Investigation Journal JO - Clin Cancer Investig J SN - 2278-0513 Y1 - 2024 VL - 13 IS - 1 DO - 10.51847/DXmwKBDgPS SP - 51 EP - 55 N2 - Cancer can cause many problems in all family, economic, social, psychological, and physical dimensions for the elderly. The present research was conducted to examine the supportive care requirements of the elderly with cancer. In this descriptive-analytical study, a total of 248 elderly (144 men and 104 women) with an average age of 67.17 ± 6.94 years with cancer were referred to Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Japan, using non-probability and available sampling in 2023. The data collection tool includes a reliable and valid supportive care requirements survey of cancer patients, which has five areas of daily functioning and physical needs of the health system and support information and care of sexual and mental patients. Based on the obtained results, a statistically significant relationship was reported between the physical areas and the daily performance of the sexual area of support and care and the information and health system with gender (P UR - https://ccij-online.org/article/supportive-care-requirements-of-elderly-patients-with-cancer-refer-to-seirei-mikatahara-general-hosp-mgkqi3tdrm3sn8s ER -