Gastric Cancer Surgery in Elderly Patients

Post-Operative Outcomes And Predictors Of Mortality After Gastric Cancer Surgery In The Very Elderly Patients

Gastric cancer is most frequent after the fifth decade of life. Surgical risk is higher in aged population because of general health condition may affect the postoperative result. Aim of the study was to identify risk factors for post-operative mortality in octogenarian patients who underwent surgery for gastric cancer.

236 patients (181: 80-85 years old and 55: >85 years old) underwent surgery for gastric cancer at the Sant'Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital in Bologna between 2010 and 2015. The variables of the two groups of patients were compared.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients with histologically confirmed primary gastric cancer submitted to surgical treatment;
• Age > 80 years.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with histologically confirmed primary gastric cancer submitted to surgical treatment and age < 80 years;
• Patients with histologically diagnosis of other neoplastic and non-neoplastic diseases submitted to surgical treatment.