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Optimising surgical management of elderly cancer patients

BACKGROUND: Elderly population is on rise. It is an ethical dilemma how aggressive one should be when it comes to treat cancer in elderly. Presumed fear of increased postoperative morbidity and mortality has resulted in delivery of sub-optimal cancer surgery. METHODS: In this review article we visit...

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Autores principales: Ramesh, Hodigere Sripathy Jois, Pope, Daniel, Gennari, Roberto, Audisio, Riccardo A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1079964/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15788092
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-3-17