Treatment and Survival of Patients with Colon Cancer Aged 80 Years and Older: A EURECCA International Comparison.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Colon cancer in older patients represents a major public health issue. As older patients are hardly included in clinical trials, the optimal treatment of these patients remains unclear. The present international EURECCA comparison explores possible associations between treatment and survival outcomes in elderly colon cancer patients.

Subjects, materials, and methods

National data from Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden were obtained, as well as a multicenter surgery cohort from Germany. Patients aged 80 years and older, diagnosed with colon cancer between 2001 and 2010, were included. The study interval was divided into two periods: 2001-2006 and 2007-2010. The proportion of surgical treatment and chemotherapy within a country and its relation t

SUBMITTER: Vermeer NCA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6156182 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature