Elderly Patients Strongly Benefit from Centralization of Pancreatic Cancer Surgery: A Population-Based Study

Series from expert centers suggest that pancreas cancer surgery is safe for elderly patients but nationwide data, taking hospital volume into account, are lacking. From the Netherlands Cancer Registry, all 3420 patients who underwent pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) for primary pancreatic or periampullary carcinoma in 2005–2013 were selected. Associations between age (<75, ≥75 years), hospital volume (tertiles), and postoperative mortality (30,...