Comparison of Outcomes for Elderly Gastric Cancer Patients at Least 80 Years of Age Following Gastrectomy in the United States and China.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study was to compare gastric cancer (GC) patients aged 80 years or older undergoing gastrectomy at two high-volume cancer centers in the US and China.

Methods

Patients aged ≥ 80 years who underwent R0 resection at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York, USA (n = 159), and Fujian Medical University Union Hospital (FMUUH) in Fujian, China (n = 118) from January 2000 to December 2013 were included. Demographic, surgical, and pathologic variables were compared, and factors associated with survival were determined via multivariate analysis.

Results

The number of patients increased annually in the FMUUH cohort but not in the MSKCC cohort. Patients at MSKCC were slightly older (mean age 83.7 vs. 82.7 years), more commonly female

SUBMITTER: Lin JX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6292729 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature