Association between patient age and the risk of mortality following local recurrence of a sacral chordoma.

Matthew T HoudekMario HevesiJoseph H SchwabMichael J YaszemskiAnthony M GriffinJohn H HealeyPeter C FergusonFrancis J HornicekPatrick J BolandFranklin H SimPeter S RoseJay S Wunder

Published in: Journal of surgical oncology (2019)

Patients with an LR are more likely to die due to disease. Advanced patient age was associated with higher all-cause mortality following resection of sacral chordoma. LR of chordoma was associated with increased disease-specific mortality, regardless of age.

Keyphrases

case report
cardiovascular events
risk factors
type diabetes
cardiovascular disease
coronary artery disease