@article{JTD22673,
author = {Pierre-Benoit Pagès and Anne-Sophie Mariet and Arnaud Pforr and Jonathan Cottenet and Leslie Madelaine and Halim Abou-Hanna and Alain Bernard and Catherine Quantin},
title = {Does age over 80 years have to be a contraindication for lung cancer surgery—a nationwide database study},
journal = {Journal of Thoracic Disease},
volume = {10},
number = {8},
year = {2018},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Background: Nowadays surgery remains the best treatment for localized lung cancer (LC). However, patients over 80 years old are often denied surgery because of the postoperative risk of death. This study aimed to estimate in-hospital mortality (IHM) and determine whether age over 80 is the most important predictor of IHM after LC surgery.
Methods: From January 2005 to December 2015, 97,440 patients, including 4,438 patients over 80 years old, were operated on for LC and recorded in the French Administrative Database. Characteristics of patients, hospitals and surgery were analysed.
Results: Crude IHM was 3.73% (n=3,639) and 7.77% (n=345) for the over 80s vs. 3.54% (n=3,294) for younger patients (P},
issn = {2077-6624}, url = {https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/22673}
}