Predictors of Short-Term Postoperative Survival after Elective Colectomy in Colon Cancer Patients ≥80 Years of Age

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1427-1435

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PREDICTION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; SEER PROGRAM; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 84880072146     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-012-2721-8     Document Type: Article

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