Table 2.
Treatment approach.
| Treatment Modality | Total n = 106 |
Patients Aged 50–69 Years N = 49 (46.2%) |
Patients Aged ≥ 70 Years N = 57 (53.8%) |
p-Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neoadjuvant radiotherapy or chemotherapy | 17 (16.1) | 9 (8.5) | 8 (7.5) | 0.546 | |
| Operative setting | Elective surgery | 85 (80.2) | 40 (37.7) | 45 (42.4) | 0.729 |
| Urgent surgery | 21 (19.8) | 9 (8.5) | 12 (11.3) | ||
| Surgical procedure | Segmental resection | 81 (76.4) | 37 (34.9) | 44 (41.5) | 0.836 |
| Anterior resection | 13 (12.3) | 6 (5.6) | 7 (6.6) | ||
| Hartmann’s procedure | 6 (5.7) | 2 (1.9) | 4 (3.8) | ||
| Abdominoperineal resection | 2 (1.9) | 1 (0.9) | 1 (0.9) | ||
| Surgical approach | Open surgery | 74 (69.8) | 33 (31.1) | 41 (38.6) | 0.608 |
| Laparoscopic | 32 (30.2) | 16 (15) | 16 (15) | ||
| Associated resection | None | 67 (63.2) | 30 (28.3) | 37 (34.9) | 0.679 |
| 1 organ | 23 (21.7) | 10 (9.4) | 13 (12.2) | ||
| ≥2 organs | 16 (15.1) | 9 (8.4) | 7 (6.6) | ||
| Synchronous liver resection | 11 (10.4) | 8 (7.5) | 3 (2.8) | 0.063 | |
| Stoma | 22 (21.7) | 10 (9.4) | 12 (11.3) | 0.969 | |
| Lymph node involvement | 59 (55.7) | 25 (23.5) | 34 (32) | 0.372 | |
| Surgical margins status | R0 | 98 (92.5) | 46 (43.3) | 52 (49) | 0.723 |
| R1 | 8 (7.5) | 3 (2.8) | 5 (4.7) | ||
| Adjuvant chemotherapy | 63 (59.4) | 36 (33.9) | 27 (25.4) | 0.006 | |
| Delay from surgery to chemotherapy, days | Mean | 37 | 34 | 40 | <0.001 |