Gastric Cancer in the Young: Is It a Different Clinical Entity? A Retrospective Cohort Study

Table 7

Performance status assessed by Karnofski scale (6 months after the operation).

Parameter	Patients; <50 years; (20)	Patients; ≥50 years; (112)	𝑃
Karnofski index, mean ± SD	80±13.6	69.8±21.5	0.085
Range	60–100	20–100
Median	80	70

SD: standard deviation; 𝑃 value is bilateral.