Abstract:495 Background: The Charlson age comorbidity index (CACI) is a useful measure of comorbidity to standardize the evaluation of surgical patients and has been reported to predict postoperative mortality in various cancers. Methods: A total of 379 patients who underwent R0/R1 resection for pancreatic cancer between 2003 and 2014 were enrolled in this study. According to the CACI, the age-adjusted comorbidity index was calculated by weighting individual comorbidities; CACI < 4 was considered the low-CACI group… Show more
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