Rectal Cancer in the Elderly: Patients' Perception of Bowel Control After Restorative Surgery

Abstract

An elderly patient undergoing anterior resection for rectal cancer has a reasonable expectation of acceptable continence. Age alone should not be a contraindication to a restorative resection.

Colorectal cancer in patients over 70 years of age: determinants of outcome

“…In this age and disease category, colonic and rectal cancer forms the second leading combined-sex cause of mortality [1]. The number of old people in our society is increasing and so is the number of elderly people with colorectal cancer [2]. The most effective treatment of colorectal cancer is an early diagnosis and radical surgical resection.…”

Prospective Evaluation of the Defecatory Functional Results in Patients Following Aorto-Aortic Reconstruction Surgery for an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

“…Some authors consider that such defecatory problems are rare and that they tend to occur in the early postoperative period, but then disappear later. [11][12][13][14] Others have indicated that most of the patients have poor clinical functional results. 15,16 Although the reason for the onset of anterior resection syndrome is unclear, it seems to be multifactorial.…”

Clinico-Pathological Caracteristics, Therapeutic Features and Post-operative Course of Colorectal Cancer in Elderly Patients

“…In this age and disease category, colonic and rectal cancer forms the second leading combined-sex cause of mortality [1] The number of old people in our society is increasing and so is the number of elderly people with colorectal cancer [2].…”