Colorectal Cancer in Patients over 80 Years of Age

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In the elderly patient with colorectal cancer, problems confronting the surgeon are often complicated by clinically significant co-existent disease, which may substantially increase surgical risk. If the effects of such complications can be recognized and at least partially corrected, surgery is warranted because it is then well tolerated, and the survival rates have proved rewarding.

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From the Department of Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

Supported in part by a Clinical Cancer Training Grant (CA 08067), National Cancer Institute, U. S. Public Health Service, and the New York City Division of the American Cancer Society, Inc.

Dr. Herbert Volk, Room 1213, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461

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