# OnCo record g8-geriatric-screening (technology). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/technologies/g8-geriatric-screening/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "g8-geriatric-screening" ;
  schema:name "G8 geriatric screening tool"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "G8"@en, "G8 questionnaire"@en, "geriatric screening"@en, "frailty screening in oncology"@en, "VES-13"@en ;
  schema:description "An eight-question screen taking under five minutes, covering appetite, weight loss, mobility, mood, medicines, self-rated health and age, that flags which older cancer patients need a full geriatric assessment before treatment is decided."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/g8-geriatric-screening/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-17"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1093/annonc/mdr587>, <https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.23.00933> ;
  onco:status "established" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-acc-electronic-frailty-index-oncology/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/nsclc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/dlbcl/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/aml/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/urothelial/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/pancreatic/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/supportive-care/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/diagnostics/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/geriatric-assessment/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/nutrition-screening-mnt/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/ct-body-composition-sarcopenia/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/epro-symptom-monitoring/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/multidisciplinary-tumour-board/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/performance-status/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/malnutrition-screening/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/sarcopenia/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/dose-modification/> ;
  onco:journals <https://onco.cc/journals/journal-of-geriatric-oncology/> .