Clinical and pathological characteristics of elderly colorectal cancer patients over 70 years old and comparison with patients under 50 years old.

e14174 Background: Incidence of colon cancer increases with age and generally is diagnosed at the age of between 60-75. Because of comorbidities in elderly patients who are older 70 years of age, lower doses of adjuvant or metastatic therapy is given them or the other option can be the chemotherapeutics which had less side effects. Methods: We aim to identify clinical and pathological characteristics of elderly colorectal cancer patients over 70 years of age who were followed at Baskent University Hospital and compare with CRC patients under the 50 years of age. Results: 182 CRC patients were assigned to the study who were followed between 1998-2011. We classified the patients into two categories according to the age. 91 participants were over 70 years of age and 91 participants were under 50 years of age. There were no significant differences between two groups for gender and percentage of patients having surgery (p=0.65/0.732). History of having systemic disease was significantly higher in the elderly g...