How should patients 80 years of age or older with colorectal carcinoma be treated? - Long-term and short-term outcome and postoperative cytokine levels

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 233-241

  Sunouchi, Koki ^a   Namiki, Kazunobu ^a   Mori, Masaki ^a   Shimizu, Toshio ^b   Tadokoro, Masao ^a  

^a Kawakita General Hospital   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Geriatric; Interleukin 6; Performance status

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GERIATRIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION;

EID: 0034058359     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02236988     Document Type: Article

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