NCT01065688 (http://www.clinicaltrials.gov).

Objectives The increasingly elderly worldwide population has affected the incidence of colorectal cancer. Establishment of reliable assessment of frailty and proposals for multi‐disciplinary interventions are urgently required in oncology practices. Kihon Checklist (KCL) was published by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare originally to identify individuals ≥ 65 years old at probable risk for requiring care or social support. We investigate the validity of KCL for frailty assessment to predict postoperative complication in older patients with colorectal cancer. Methods Consecutive colorectal cancer patients aged ≥ 65 (n = 500) were prospectively examined between May 2017 and December 2018. Preoperative frailty assessment was conducted by the G8 questionnaire and KCL. The main outcome measures were correlation between frailty, other clinical variables, and postoperative complications within 30 days after elective surgery. Results Of the 500 patients, 278 (55.6%) and 164 (32.8%) patients were classified as ‘frail’ by G8 and KCL, respectively. Overall complications counted among 97 patients (19.4%), and they were significantly associated with KCL ≥ 8‐frail (46/164, p = 0.001), as opposed to G8 ≤ 14‐frail (56/278, p = 0.531). Multivariate analysis showed that KCL ≥ 8 (hazard ratio 1.88, 95% confidence interval 1.16–3.04, p = 0.011) was an independent risk factor for these complications. Conclusions KCL assessment can identify frail older patients likely to suffer from postoperative complications after colorectal cancer surgery. Preoperative screening of frailty, particularly by KCL, would help older patients prevent their worse outcomes in colorectal cancer. Trial registration UMIN000026689.

Bilateral gluteus maximus rotation flap may be useful after wide local excision of perianal extramammary Paget's disease without underlying invasive carcinoma.

We present a rare case in which a pancreatectomy was performed for a recurrent tumor in the remnant pancreas after a pancreaticoduodenectomy, and we review the associated literature. A 67-year old man underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy for pancreatic cancer on April 9, 2003. The tumor was composed of well differentiated adenocarcinoma and diagnosed as R0, pT2, pN1, pM0, pStage III according to UICC TNM classification. Five years and eight months later, his serum level of carcinoembryonic antigen was found to be elevated, and a computed tomography showed a low-density mass near the site of the pancreaticojejunostomy and dilatation of the jejunal stump. We conducted a total resection of the remnant pancreas including pancreaticojejunostomy, splenectomy and peripancreatic lymph node dissection without any residual macroscopic tumor. Histologically, it was diagnosed as a well differentiated adenocarcinoma, similar to the initial tumor. It is difficult to assess whether this tumor developing in the remnant pancreas was a local recurrence or a second primary cancer. However, we believe this tumor was a second primary tumor because of the long interval period and the absence of a neoplastic invasion in the resection margins of the initial specimens.

A duodenal carcinoma cell line was established, which is rare and may contribute to progress in understanding the biological features of duodenal cancer.