Prognostic factors for gastrectomy in elderly patients
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Laparoscopic Radical Gastrectomy for Remnant Gastric Cancer
Published on: October 31, 2025
Shunji Endo1, Yukinobu Yoshikawa, Nobutaka Hatanaka
11 Department of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Kure Medical Center/Chugoku Cancer Center, Hiroshima, Japan.
Abstract:
The decision to undergo surgery for gastric cancer patients aged ≥85 years should be made carefully. We retrospectively reviewed the prognostic factors of gastrectomy for 64 patients aged ≥85 years who had undergone curative gastrectomy for gastric cancer. The effects of various clinical characteristics and surgical interventions on survival were retrospectively analyzed. Univariate analysis revealed that sex (male/female; P = 0.001), the extent of gastric resection (total/distal; P = 0.028), the extent of lymph node dissection (D2/
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