Perioperative and oncologic outcomes in young and octogenarian patients with colorectal cancer: a comparison at the extremes

• Published in: Langenbeck's archives of surgery Vol. 406; no. 7; pp. 2399 - 2408
• Main Authors: Chan, Dedrick Kok Hong, Leong, Sze Wai, Keh, Christopher Hang Liang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.11.2021
• Subjects: Abdominal Surgery; Cardiac Surgery; General Surgery; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Original Article; Thoracic Surgery; Traumatic Surgery; Vascular Surgery; Octogenarian; Outcomes; Colorectal cancer; Young cancer

Introduction In colorectal cancer (CRC), surgical outcomes in the young (< 50) and octogenarian populations are believed to be poor due to an aggressive phenotype in the former, and increased frailty in the latter. Given that age-related effects are inversely related between groups, we compared s...