Surgery for gastric cancer in patients older than 80 years of age.

摘要: BACKGROUND/AIMS Although the number of elderly patients who undergo surgery for gastric cancer has increased in recent years, clinical features associated with this group patients, including their postoperative survival rate, remain unclear. METHODOLOGY The cases 50 > or = 80 years age (the older group) underwent surgical treatment our Department from January 1988 to December 1995 were reviewed and compared records 239 < 60 younger had during same time period. RESULTS incidence advanced versus groups was 59.6% 27.9%, respectively (p 0.01). tumor size significantly larger group. location predominantly involved upper third stomach, while group, middle stomach primarily involved. Histologically, differentiated types 65.1% 50.5% 0.05), undifferentiated types, 34.9% 49.5% groups, respectively. Retrospective comparisons conducted between revealed following: curative resectability rate: 52.0% 74.5% 0.01); hospital mortality 2% 0%; overall 5-year 46.1% 71.1% a rate resection 65.0% 88.8% CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that is worse than because lower cancer. However, identical if performed.