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TRANSLATIONAL GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY
Volume 2, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
AME PUBL CO
DOI: 10.21037/tgh.2016.12.07
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Lymphadenectomy; gastric cancer surgery; elderly/high risk patients; perioperative morbidity
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The global aging of population will lead a greater number of elderly patients to undergo surgical procedure in a near future. Concerning gastric cancer, the impact of lymphadenectomy on survival has been demonstrated in RCTs, and extended lymphadenectomy is now considered as gold standard of treatment in non-early tumors. However, the role of age as a prognostic factor and the benefit of extended surgery in elderly/high-risk patients are not clearly defined yet. From our revision of literature, it seems that surgery for gastric cancer may have a further tailorization, considering not only the stage of disease, but also patients' age and comorbidities.
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