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

Table 1

Factors affecting survival between ≥70 years and <70 years CRC patients.

	Elderly ()	Young ()	value
Sex
Male	88 (55%)	157 (49%)
Female	72 (45%)	160 (51%)	0.30
Presentation
Intestinal obstruction	31 (19%)	47 (15%)	0.25
Preoperative serum markers
Albumin >3.5 g/L	66 (41%)	166 (52%)	0.03
CEA >0.5 ng/L	69 (43%)	118 (37%)	0.10
N/A	25 (16%)	33 (11%)
Cancer location
Lower rectum	49 (31%)	85 (27%)	0.09
Upper rectum	60 (37%)	130 (41%)
Left colon	33 (21%)	47 (15%)
Right colon	16 (10%)	54 (17%)
N/A	02 (01%)	01 (0.0%)
IJCC stage
Advanced stage (III/IV)	58 (36%)	123 (39%)	1.00
Postoperative complications
Infective complications	15 (9%)	23 (7%)	0.53
Surgical site infections
Superficial	5	10
Deep	2	4
Deep organ space	0	2
Other organ systems	8	7
Cardiac complications	12 (7.5%)	5 (1.6%)	<0.01
Myocardial infarction	9	2
Heart failure	1	3
Arrhythmia	1	0
Endocarditis	1	0
Anastomotic complications	3 (2%)	14 (4%)	0.24