title: [Colorectal cancer in patients over the age of 80 years].
abstract: Between January 1, 1973 and December 31, 1986, 1.734 patients underwent colorectal resections for carcinoma. The patients were divided into two groups: group I included 163 patients > 80 years on first presentation; group II comprised 1.571 patients < 80 years. The total perioperative mortality rates of the elderly and younger group were 15.3 percent and 5 percent respectively (p < 0.001). The surgical mortality rates in group I were 7.4 percent after elective operations versus 4.5 percent in group II and were not statistically different. Emergency surgery was associated with a significantly higher incidence of perioperative deaths at any age (p < 0.001). In the elderly group, most deaths (88%) resulted from complications of coexisting medical disorders or thrombo-embolic complications. The 5 year survival for the young and elderly groups were 46.2 percent and 35 percent respectively (p < 0.05). However, excluding patients dying from nonmalignant disease, the 5 year survival rate did not differ significantly between the two groups of patients (49.5 percent versus 42.2 percent).
authors.affiliation: Service de Chirurgie, Centre Médico-chirurgical et Obstétrical, Schiltigheim.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Adloff
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Ollier
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schloegel
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Arnaud
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Serrat
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*
vernacular_title: Le cancer colo-rectal chez les sujets de plus de 80 ans.