Clinical impact of evaluation of frailty in endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer in elderly patients.
Noboru MisawaTakuma HigurashiJun TachikawaHiroaki TanabeTsutomu YoshiharaKeiichi AshikariKenji KanoshimaAkiko FuyukiHidenori OhkuboYusuke SaigusaHideyuki ChibaTakashi NonakaHitoshi KuriyamaNoritoshi KobayashiAtsushi NakajimaPublished in: Geriatrics & gerontology international (2020)
ESD for EGC is safe for elderly patients with or without frailty. However, elderly patients with frailty have a significantly poorer prognosis than those without frailty after ESD. Our results indicate that the frailty evaluation may be helpful to determine whether ESD for EGC should be performed. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2020; 20: 461-466.