Ki-Yeol Kim, In-Ho Cha, Joong Bae Ahn, Nam Kyu Kim, Sun Young Rha, Hyun Cheol Chung, Jae Kyung Roh, Sang Joon Shin
PURPOSE: Adjuvant chemotherapy has been known as a standard treatment for patients with resected colon cancer. However, in elderly colon cancer patients, the characteristics of patients are heterogeneous with regard to life expectancy and comorbidities. Thus, with regard to the effectiveness of adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer, it is difficult to extrapolate data of clinical trials from the younger into the older general population. METHODS: Data for 382 elderly colon cancer patients were analyzed: 217 in Stage II and 165 in Stage III...
May 2013: Journal of Surgical Oncology