Factors Affecting Postoperative Early-term Mortality and Anastomotic Leakage in Geriatric Colorectal Cancer Patients

These findings show that lack of bowel preparation and development of intraabdominal abscess/peritonitis significantly increase early-term mortality rates in both <65 and geriatric patients. Additionally, hypertension, emergency surgery, advanced tumor stage, development of ostomy-related complications, respiratory failure, and perforation significantly increase early-term mortality solely in geriatric patients.