Patient Empowerment and Risk-assessed Treatment to Improve Outcome in the Elderly After Onco-surgery

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients aged 65 years and older with abdominal, thoracical or urogenital cancer scheduled for surgery * Offered patient information and written informed consent * Confirmed cancer diagnosis via histology * Mini Mental state \> 23 * Life-expectance \> 2 months Exclusion Criteria: * Participation in another trial according to the German Drug Law 7 days to and 7 days after the operation during the study * No informed consent * Emergency patients * Lacking willingness to save and hand out data within the study * Accommodation in an institution due to an official or judicial order * Concurrent malignancies * Insufficient knowledge of the German language * In case of the inclusion of a PERATECS - study patient in an adjuvant therapy study during the study period, the patient will be excluded from the PERATECS-study