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30.11.2022 | Aso Author Reflections
ASO Author Reflections: Gastrointestinal Surgery in Older Cancer Patients—Chronologic Age Matters for Patient Selection and Counseling
verfasst von:
Matthew A. Beier, MFE, David A. August, MD
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Ausgabe 2/2023
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Excerpt
During multidisciplinary patient care conferences, discussions concerning older cancer patients frequently assert that the patient is “robust” and “physiologically younger” than his or her stated age. Essentially, “robust” and “physiologically younger” are surrogates for “not frail” and “acceptable comorbidities.” However, the role of age in predicting morbidity and/or mortality after surgical intervention for elderly patients (age > 75–80 years) is not clear.
1‐4 The authors hypothesized that chronologic age, independent of frailty, comorbidities, and operative magnitude is the strongest predictor of failure to rescue (FTR) for patients of advanced age.
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