title: Gastric cancer in the elderly.
abstract: The elderly population is expanding and, from the early 1990s, one-quarter of newly diagnosed gastric cancer patients are over 80 years of age. The main risk factors for post-operative complications and mortality are total gastrectomy, radical lymphadenectomy, splenectomy and/or pancreatectomy and these should, therefore, not be practised routinely. Good long-term results can be achieved with careful monitoring of concomitant disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Kranenbarg
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: van de Velde
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D005743:Gastrectomy / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D010180:Pancreatectomy; D013156:Splenectomy; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D015996:Survival Rate