Post-operative mortality after colorectal cancer surgery is frequently driven by pre-existing co-morbidities rather than direct surgical complications.
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Optimizing comorbidities preoperatively may lower mortality after colorectal cancer surgery; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective confirmation.
Eeghen et al. (2015) studied this question.
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