Challenging the age barrier: comparative outcomes in octogenarian and non-octogenarian colorectal cancer patients.

BMC Geriatr · 2025 · PMC12699926 · PMID 41388513

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Diabetes was most common in the non-octogenarian elderly group (41.2%) compared to octogenarians (22.5%) and non-elderly patients (12.8%), though this difference did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.062).

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Other variables such as gender, tumor localisation, ECOG performance score, Charlson Comorbidity Index, and age did not demonstrate statistically significant associations, although ECOG scores of 2 and 3 showed a trend towards worse prognosis (Table 3 ).

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