Colorectal cancer in patients over 70 years of age: Determinants of outcome

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages

  Basdanis, G ^a   Papadopoulos, V N ^a,b   Michalopoulos, A ^a   Fahantidis, E ^a   Apostolidis, S ^a   Berovalis, P ^a   Zatagias, A ^a   Karamanlis, E ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Colorectal adenocarcinoma; Elderly; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGE; CANCER STAGING; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLECTOMY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 13844309767     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-004-0128-7     Document Type: Article

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