Mortality for Gastric Cancer in Elderly Patients

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 132-136

  Eguchi, Teruo ^a   Fujii, Masashi ^a   Takayama, Tadatoshi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer stage; Cause of death; Extremely elderly; Morbidity; Outcome; Poor prognosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GERIATRIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0242330125     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.10303     Document Type: Article

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