Surgical treatment of colon cancer in patients aged 80 years and older: Analysis of 31,574 patients in the SEER-Medicare database

Cancer

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 639-647

  Neuman, Heather B ^a   O'Connor, Erin S ^a   Weiss, Jennifer ^b   Loconte, Noelle K ^b   Greenblatt, David Y ^a   Greenberg, Caprice C ^a   Smith, Maureen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

aged; colectomy; colon cancer; elderly; nonagenarian; octogenarian

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CANCER SURGERY; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; SEER PROGRAM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872955824     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27765     Document Type: Article

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