How should we treat gastric cancer in the very elderly?

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 59, Issue 114, 2012, Pages 620-622

  Fujiwara, Shozo ^a,b   Noguchi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Harada, Katsuhisa ^a,c   Noguchi, Takuya ^a,c   Wada, Shinsuke ^a   Moriyama, Hatsuo ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Oita Sanai Medical Center   (Japan)

^c Department of Surgery   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Prognosis; The elderly

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84860579792     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5754/hge10269     Document Type: Article

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