1. Outcome of Esophagectomy for Cancer in Elderly Patients
Tanja M. Cijs, MD, Cees Verhoef, MD, PhD, Ewout W. Steyerberg, PhD, Linetta B. Koppert, MD, PhD, T.C. Khe Tran, MD, Bas P.L. Wijnhoven, MD, PhD, Hugo W. Tilanus, MD, PhD, Jeroen de Jonge, MD, PhD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 90, Issue 3, Pages (September 2010)
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2. Fig 1
Overall and cancer specific 5-year survival for patients less than 70 years of age and patients more than 70 years of age. The expected survival of the normal Dutch population with the same age and sex distribution at the time of surgery is indicated as reference. Numbers are patients at risk. The difference in cancer-specific survival between patients younger than 70 years and patients older than 70 years of age is statistically significant (p = 0.03). The life loss is represented by the difference between the expected survival and actuarial survival for patients aged 70 years or older. For patients aged less than 70 years, disease-specific survival (solid squares) was 33.7% (median 24.9), and overall survival (open squares) was 29.3% (median 21.5 months). For patients aged 70 years or more, disease-specific survival (solid triangles) was 26.8% (median 20.2 months), and overall survival (open triangles) was 21.7% (median 16.9 months).
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