Erschienen in:
25.07.2016 | Pancreatic Tumors
Why Can’t Surgeons Treat Older Patients the Same as Younger Patients?
verfasst von:
Riccardo A. Audisio, Charles M. Balch
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Ausgabe 13/2016
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Excerpt
Pancreatic cancer is a disease of older people (with a prevalence of only 0.1 per 100,000 in the 20- to 29-year-old group and 87.2 per 100,000 after age 80), and so is every solid tumor. King and colleagues have published an important article in
Annals of Surgical Oncology that highlights our dismal performance as surgeons who undertreat octogenarians who are candidates for pancreatic surgery, highlighting the huge gap of knowledge on such a remarkably important issue.
1 As a result of undertreatment, cancer-specific survival for older patients is appalling. The authors analyzed data from a series of 431 octogenarians with pancreatic cancer, retrieving clinical information including the Charlson comorbidity index as well as reasons not to treat; they then attempt to correlate treatment planning to outcomes. …