Disproportionately high failure to rescue rates after resection for colorectal cancer in the geriatric patient population - A nationwide study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Colorectal cancer incidence increases with patient age. The aim of this study was to assess, at the nationwide level, in-hospital mortality, and failure to rescue in geriatric patients (≥ 80 years old) with colorectal cancer arising from postoperative complications.

Methods

All patients receiving surgery for colorectal cancer in Germany between 2012 and 2018 were identified in a nationwide database. Association between age and in-hospital mortality following surgery and failure to rescue, defined as death after complication, were determined in univariate and multivariate analyses.

Results

Three lakh twenty-eight thousands two hundred and ninety patients with colorectal cancer were included of whom 77,287 were 80 years or older. With increasing age, a signif

SUBMITTER: Diers J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9678084 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature