학술논문
The prognosis of elderly patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: A multi‐center 19‐year experience in Japan
Document Type
article
Author
Takeshi Hatanaka; Satoru Kakizaki; Atsushi Hiraoka; Kazuya Kariyama; Kunihiko Tsuji; Toru Ishikawa; Hidenori Toyoda; Satoshi Yasuda; Atsushi Naganuma; Toshifumi Tada; Koichi Takaguchi; Akemi Tsutsui; Ei Itobayashi; Noritomo Shimada; Hiroshi Shibata; Takaaki Tanaka; Takuya Nagano; Michitaka Imai; Shinichiro Nakamura; Kazuhiro Nouso; Hisashi Kosaka; Masaki Kaibori; Takashi Kumada; Real‐life Practice Experts for HCC (RELPEC) Study Group
Source
Cancer Medicine, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 345-357 (2023)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
2045-7634
Abstract
Abstract Aims This retrospective study compared the survival between elderly and non‐elderly patients. Methods A total of 5545 treatment‐naive patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who visited 7 different hospitals from January 2000 to December 2018 were included. Patients ≥80 years old were defined as elderly patients. We divided the patients into three groups based on the timing of the initial treatment: Early, middle, and late periods defined as 2000 to 2005, 2006 to 2012, and 2013 to 2018, respectively. Results There were 132 (8.9%), 405 (17.5%), and 388 (22.2%) elderly patients in the early, middle, and late period, respectively, showing a significant increase over time (p