[Problems on cancer patients in the aged--from the viewpoint of gastroenterotomy]

From the viewpoint of gastroenterological surgery, the present study was designed to investigate the difference of problems between on cancer patients in old age and on those in young and middle ages. The materia were 847 consecutive cases of carcinoma of gastrointestinal tract, including stomach (432 cases), colon (18 cases) and esophagus (229 cases) carcinomas, during the period from 1973 to 1981 at the surgical division in Kagoshima University Hospital. The cases were analyzed from the following three points; clinical status character of carcinoma, and surgical treatment of cancer patients in old age. In our surgical division, surgical treatment have been tried positively against cancers of the patients in old age, and the better results of the operation have been gained as same as the cases of the middle and young aged.