Prognostic Effect of Age in Resected Pancreatic Cancer Patients: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis

Abstract

The elderly PDAC patients were associated with worse OS survival after radical resection, and the noticeable negative effect of age was observed among PDAC patients with better preoperative nutritional status and less aggressive tumor biology. Adjuvant chemotherapy was essential to improve survival outcome of elderly PDAC patients following radical resection.