Impairment of Activities of Daily Living is an Independent Risk Factor for Recurrence and Mortality Following Curative Resection of Stage I-III Colorectal Cancer.
Kosuke MimaKeisuke KosumiNobutomo MiyanariTakuya TajiriKosuke KanemitsuToru TakematsuMitsuhiro InoueTakao MizumotoTatsuo KubotaHideo BabaPublished in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2021)
Lower scores on the Barthel index are associated with shorter RFS and OS following resection of nonmetastatic colorectal cancer. Further studies are needed to establish treatment strategies for colorectal cancer patients with poor functional capacity.