Patients 70 and Older Benefit From Surgery for Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases

Elsevier Global Medical News. 2008 Feb 12, F Lowry

ORLANDO (EGMN) - Liver resection of colorectal metastases was associated with good long-term survival among patients over age 70 years in an analysis based on 20 years of data from an international registry.Five-year survival after surgery was 37% in a cohort of 729 patients aged 70 years and older and 44% in patients younger than 70 years old. The variations in survival, however, appeared to be associated primarily with the type of disease present rather than solely attributable to patient age,...

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