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The decision to undergo surgery for gastric cancer patients aged ≥85 years should be made carefully. We retrospectively reviewed the prognostic factors of gastrectomy for 64 patients aged ≥85 years who had undergone curative gastrectomy for gastric cancer. The effects of various clinical characteristics and surgical interventions on survival were retrospectively analyzed. Univariate analysis revealed that sex (male/female; P = 0.001), the extent of gastric resection (total/distal; P = 0.028), the extent of lymph node dissection (D2/
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Endo, S., Yoshikawa, Y., Hatanaka, N., Dousei, T., Yamada, T., Nishijima, J., & Kamiike, W. (2014). Prognostic factors for gastrectomy in elderly patients. International Surgery. International College of Surgeons. https://doi.org/10.9738/INTSURG-D-13-00016.1
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