Gastric Cancer in the Elderly

Overview

Journal Eur J Surg Oncol

Publisher Elsevier

Specialties General Surgery
Oncology

Date 1998 Nov 4

PMID 9800965

Citations 8

Authors

E K Kranenbarg

C J van de Velde

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Abstract

The elderly population is expanding and, from the early 1990s, one-quarter of newly diagnosed gastric cancer patients are over 80 years of age. The main risk factors for post-operative complications and mortality are total gastrectomy, radical lymphadenectomy, splenectomy and/or pancreatectomy and these should, therefore, not be practised routinely. Good long-term results can be achieved with careful monitoring of concomitant disease.

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