Tag: elderly surgery
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Robotic surgery for older adults
By Vincent Lavoué (French research) and Walter Gotlieb (Canadian Research). This report is an abbreviated version of the full paper in Cancers, MDPI An increasing proportion of patients requiring treatment for malignancy are older people, which has created new challenges for oncologic surgeons. Ageing is associated with an increasing prevalence of frailty and comorbidities that…