Survival outcomes of elderly patients with pathological stages II and III gastric cancer following curative gastrectomy.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Survival outcomes in elderly patients with pathological stages (pStages) II and III gastric cancer remain inadequately elucidated. We retrospectively analyzed outcomes of elderly and nonelderly patients who underwent curative gastrectomy for this cancer and considered clinical results of the Estimation of Physiologic Ability and Surgical Stress (E-PASS) scoring system for prediction.

Methods

Among 1041 patients who underwent gastrectomy for pStages II and III gastric cancer between 2008 and 2013 consecutively, 898 patients were enrolled. Of these, 158 patients (17.6%) were elderly and 740 patients (82.4%) were nonelderly.

Results

Disease-specific survival (DSS) in the elderly group with pStage III cancer was significantly worse than that in the same stage nonelder

SUBMITTER: Takahashi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7382424 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature