Surgery for gastric cancer patients of age 85 and older: Multicenter survey

Table 1 Patient characteristics and perisurgical outcomes n (%)

	Total patients (n = 134)
Age (yr)	87.4 (85-97)
Sex (male/female)	77/57
Post-operative hospital stay (d)	29 (9-305)
Comorbidity	89 (66.0)
Hypertension	52 (39.0)
Cardiovascular disease	36 (27)
Respiratory disease	13 (9.7)
Cerebrovascular disease	9 (6.7)
Diabetes mellitus	13 (9.7)
Renal dysfunction	4 (3.0)
Other	4 (3.0)
Number of comorbidities
0	45
1/2	63/18
3/4	6/2
Operation
Distal	84
Proximal	5
Total	34
Partial	4
Bypass	4
Unresectable	3
Procedure
Open	122
Laparoscopy	12
Lymphadenectomy
D0/D1	17/52
D1+/D2	40/25
Lymphadenectomy
Radical/limited	59/75
Number of resected LN	23 (0-67)
Operative time (min)	206 (62-426)
Bleeding (g)	263 (10-1855)
Residual tumor
R0/1/2	103/10/21

LN: Lymph node.