老年肺癌围术期共病管理的研究进展:从风险评估到综合干预

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1003-9198.2026.06.016

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Abstract: Elderly patients show high incidence and mortality of lung cancer, often accompanied by comorbidities including metabolic, cardiovascular and chronic respiratory diseases. Such complex comorbidities affect treatment choices, surgical tolerance, and raise perioperative risks and poor prognosis, complicating clinical management.Perioperative care should focus on risk assessment based on comprehensive geriatric evaluation, integrating comorbidities, frailty, cognitive, nutritional and functional status to establish multi-level risk identification and stratified strategies. Multidisciplinary precise interventions help deliver personalized perioperative management.Future efforts should standardize risk assessment tools, strengthen clinical application and optimize comorbidity-oriented integrated models to improve perioperative safety and long-term quality of life for elderly lung cancer patients.

Key words: comorbidities, elderly lung cancer, perioperative management, geriatric syndromes

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R 734.2

YE Lian, LIANG Rui, LI Linlong, GE Ning. Research advances in perioperative comorbidity management for elderly lung cancer patients: from risk assessment to comprehensive intervention[J]. Practical Geriatrics, 2026, 40(6): 624-629.

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