Overall Survival of Elderly Patients Having Surgery for Colorectal Cancer Is Comparable to Younger Patients: Results from a South Asian Population

Table 2

Individual variable analysis survival determinants in ≥70 years versus <50 years CRC patients.

	Estimated coefficient	Standard error	Z	value
Age	2.706	0.48857	2.037	0.04
Sex	0.841	0.39359	−0.440	0.66
Bleeding	1.329	0.63587	0.447	0.65
Intestinal obstruction	0.832	0.69147	−0.266	0.79
Albumin	1.055	0.31645	0.168	0.87
CEA	1.004	0.00207	1.726	0.08
Cancer location	0.536	0.32148	−1.940	0.05
Differentiation	0.600	0.44976	−1.135	0.26
Cardiac complications	3.279	0.59450	1.998	0.04
Infective complications	1.156	0.67440	0.215	0.83
Anastomotic complication	0.274	1.06579	−1.216	0.22