title: Gastric cancer in the elderly patient.
abstract: The incidence of gastric cancer is increasing in elderly patients, unlike what it's being observed in the younger patients. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of the age on the resecability, resection type (R0-R1-2), morbidity, mortality and survival rate. The higher mortality observed in the elderly patients, the discussed role of an extended lymphadenectomy and the poor survival rate, would lead to a surgical approach which mostly tends to the palliation of the symptoms than the obtainment of a curative resection. But, on the other hand, the impossibility of making chemotherapy in most of the over 75 year old patients, lead us to a R0 surgery treatment.
authors.affiliation: VIII Division of General Surgery and Gastroenterologic Physiopathology, II University of Naples, Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Di Martino
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Izzo
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Torelli
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cosenza
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Monaco
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Basciotti
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brillantino
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery*; D015996:Survival Rate