2024 Volume 20 Issue 5-6 Pages 533-537
We investigated the impact of postoperative infectious complications on the prognosis of elderly patients aged 80 and older. The study included 120 cases of elective gastrointestinal cancer surgery (colorectal and gastric cancer) performed between 2013 and 2019. The postoperative infectious complication group (n=24, PI group) and the control group (n=96, non-PI group) were divided, and the oncological prognosis was analyzed. The postoperative 5-year overall survival (OS) rates were 63% in the PI group and 69％ in the non-PI group (P=0.64). The postoperative 5-year cancer-specific survival (CSS) rates were 88％ in the PI group and 81% in the non-PI group (P=0.53). There was no significant difference in OS and CSS between the two groups. In the multivariate analysis of Cox regression analysis regarding OS, gender (male), gastric cancer, and stage were selected as significant factors. In the elderly population, it was suggested that infectious complications do not impact the oncological prognosis.
