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What are the independent predictors of postoperative mortality, morbidity, and long-term survival after palliative resection in patients with stage IV colorectal cancer?
What are the independent predictors of postoperative mortality, morbidity, and long-term survival after palliative resection in patients with stage IV colorectal cancer?
In patients with stage IV colorectal cancer undergoing palliative resection, elderly patients with advanced local disease or extrahepatic metastases are at high risk of 30-day postoperative mortality, while significant nodal disease and poor tumor differentiation predict poor long-term survival.
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May inform risk stratification before palliative resection in stage IV colorectal cancer; leaves open whether optimizing modifiable factors improves survival.
Stillwell et al. (2011) studied this question.
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