The impact of age on rectal cancer treatment, complications and survival

BMC Cancer

Table 6 Rates of 90-day mortality, five-year overall survival, and five-year relative survival, according to age ^*

Age group	Patients	Death within 90 days	Patients that survived 90 days (417 patients)
Years	N	N/total (%)	Overall survival	Relative survival
		p=0.061 ^a	% (95% CI) p<0.001 ^b	% (95% CI) p=0.12 ^c
<65	126	1 / 126 (0.8)	86.8 (80.6 to 93.0)	90.5 (82.8 to 95.6)
65-79	237	9 / 237 (3.8)	67.9 (61.7 to 74.0)	81.4 (75.6 to 88.2)
80+	68	4 / 68 (5.9)	40.8 (28.5 to 52.7)	74.2 (51.9 to 95.9)
Total	431	14 / 431 (3.2)	69.4 (64.7 to 73.6)	84.2 (78.5 to 89.3)

^aCochran Armitage exact trend test
^bLog Rank test
^cLog likelihood
^*This analysis included patients with rectal cancer stages I-III that underwent a major resection with curative intent

ISSN: 1471-2407