Abstract
To deny or not to deny surgical resection for pancreatic cancer to elderly patients?
Highlights
Population over 65 years old represents the fastest growing group of overall population
The two groups are comparable in terms of surgical procedure and tumor stage; group B patients show a higher ASA score level (p = 0.001 vs Group A)
There is no significant difference between Group A and B in mortality rate (2.6% vs 3.6%), postoperative morbidity (60.5% vs 57.2%), hospital stay length (20.8 ± 13.9 vs 18.5 ± 9.1 days) and median overall survival (27.7 vs 15, 9 months, p = 0.08)
Summary
To deny or not to deny surgical resection for pancreatic cancer to elderly patients?. XI Annual Meeting of The Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery Francesco Sciannameo, Giammario Giustozzi and Beatrice Sensi Publication of this supplement was made possible with support from the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Terni e Narni Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2318-9-S1-
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