[The course and treatment of gastric cancer in aged and senile patients]. / Osobennosti techeniia i lecheniia raka zheludka u bol'nykh pozhilogo i preklonnogo veka.

The gastric cancer features have been studied in 677 patients aged over 60, suffering this affection. This group of patients makes 58.0% in relation to other age groups. The clinical picture of gastric cancer in aged patients is obliterated, the symptoms are poorly manifest, and in 20% of cases the picture is disguised by other lesions, believed by the patient to be the manifestation of age changes. Among 677 patients 61.3% were subjected to surgery, 15.2% were found to be inoperable, 13% refused the operation, and in 10.5% the latter was contraindicated due to grave patients' condition. The postoperative mortality was 7%. The patients, radically operated upon, survived for 5 years and longer in 41% of cases.