Treatment of Elderly Patients with Colorectal Cancer

Table 1

Representative studies comparing laparoscopic colectomy and open surgery for elderly CRC patients.

Author (year)	Age	Hospital stay (days)		OS
Cummings (2012) [31]	≥65	versus	<0.001	55.8% versus 50.05% (5 y)	0.095
Mukai (2014) [32]	≥85	14.7 versus 21.7	<0.0001	–	–
Vallribera Valls (2014) [33]	75–84	10 versus 14.3	0.001	–	–
	≥85	11.4 versus 15.4	0.077	–	–
Nakamura (2014) [34]	≥85	10 versus 19	<0.0001	–	–
Hinoi (2015) [35]	≥80	12 versus 13.0 (colon)	<0.001	85.5% versus 81.2% (colon, 3 y)	0.916
		19 versus 18 (rectum)	0.990	78.6% versus 70.2% (rectum, 3 y)	0.765

surgery versus open surgery; of survival at indicated years in parentheses. y, years; –, not mentioned in the article.