1. Sphincter-saving proctectomy for rectal cancer with NO COIL (R) transanal tube and without ostoma. Clinical outcomes, cost effectiveness and quality of life in the elderly
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Rosario Sacco, Lucia Stella Curto, Stefano de Franciscis, Raffaele Serra, Giuseppe Sammarco, Roberto Romano, Michele Ammendola, Gaetano Gallo, Severino Montemurro, and Antonietta Condoluci
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Time Factors ,Cost effectiveness ,Colorectal cancer ,Cost-Benefit Analysis ,Anal Canal ,03 medical and health sciences ,operative surgical procedures ,0302 clinical medicine ,Quality of life ,rectal neoplasms ,aged ,treatment outcome ,adenocarcinoma ,Rectal Adenocarcinoma ,Medicine ,Humans ,Radical surgery ,Contraindication ,Retrospective Studies ,Proctectomy ,business.industry ,Retrospective cohort study ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Quality of Life ,Adenocarcinoma ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,Female ,business ,Organ Sparing Treatments - Abstract
BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer is one of the most common invasive cancers, and it is responsible for considerable physical and psychosocial morbidity specially in older patients. However, only few reports focused on quality of life, cost-effectiveness and clinical outcomes of rectal cancer patients undergone to surgery. This retrospective study compares short-term and long-term outcomes in rectal cancer patients with more and less than 75 years of age. METHODS Four hundred consecutive patients underwent radical surgery for rectal adenocarcinoma and they were collected in a prospective institutional database and divided into two groups: group 1 (≥75 years, N.=98); group 2 (
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- 2019