GOSAFE - Geriatric Oncology Surgical Assessment and Functional rEcovery after Surgery: early analysis on 977 patients Isacco Montroni a , Siri Rostoft b , Antonino Spinelli c , Barbara L. Van Leeuwen d , Giorgio Ercolani e , Nicole M. Saur f , Michael T. Jaklitsch g , Ponnandai S. Somasundar h , Nicola de Liguori Carino i , Federico Ghignone a , Flavia Foca j , Chiara Zingaretti j, ⁎, Riccardo A. Audisio k , Giampaolo Ugolini a , The SIOG surgical task force/ESSO GOSAFE study group Anna Garutti 1 , Giovanni Taffurelli 1 , Davide Zattoni 1 , Paola Tramelli 1 , Giacomo Sermonesi 1 , Francesca Di Candido 2 , Michele Carvello 2 , Matteo Sacchi 2 , Francesca De Lucia 2 , Caterina Foppa 2 , Matthijs Plas 3 , Hanneke Van der Wal-Huisman 3 , Francesca Tauceri 4 , Barbara Perenze 4 , Daniela Di Pietrantonio 4 , Mariateresa Mirarchi 4 , Michael Fejka 5 , Joshua I.S. Bleier 5 , Laura Frain 6 , Sam W. Fox 6 , Kristin Cardin 6 , Luis E. De Leon 6 , Minas Baltatzis 7 , Anthony K.C. Chan 7 , Ajith K. Siriwardena 7 , Bernadette Vertogen 8 , Oriana Nanni 8 , Gianluca Garulli 9,10 , Vincenzo Alagna 9,10 , Basilio Pirrera 9,10 , Andrea Lucchi 9 , Francesco Monari 9 , Luigi Conti 11 , Patrizio Capelli 11 , Andrea Romboli 11 , Gerardo Palmieri 11 , Filippo Banchini 11 , Luigi Marano 12,13 , Alessandro Spaziani 12 , Giampaolo Castagnoli 12 , Alberto Bartoli 12 , Mario Trompetto 14 , Gaetano Gallo 14 , Alberto Realis Luc 14 , Giuseppe Clerico 14 , Giuseppe Sammarco 14,15 , Raffaele De Luca 16 , Graziana Barile 16 , Michele Simone 16 , Andrea Costanzi 17 , Giulio Mari 17 , Dario Maggioni 17 , Roberta Pellegrino 17,18 , Valentina Riggio 17,18 , Jakub Kenig 19 , Kinga Szabat 19 , Stefano Scabini 20 , Davide Pertile 20 , Emanuela Stratta 20 , Andrea Massobrio 20 , Domenico Soriero 20 , Arild Nesbakken 21 , Mariann Lønn 21 , Ingeborg Flåten Backe 21 , Giovanni Ferrari 22 , Michele Mazzola 22 , Bruno D.A. Alampi 22 , Pietro Achilli 22,23 , Stefano Sfondrini 22,23 , Orestis Ioannidis 24 , Lydia Loutzidou 24 , Konstantinos Galanos-Demiris 24 , Gianluca Pellino 25 , Genoveffa Balducci 26 , Barbara Frezza 26 , Alessio Lucarini 26 , Claudia Santos 27 , Lisa Cooper 28 , Baha Siam 28 , Yochai Levy 28 , Baruch Brenner 28 , Hanoch Kashtan 28 , Valerio Belgrano 29 , Franco De Cian 29 , Beatrice Palermo 29 , Roberto Eggenhöffner 29 , Manuela Albertelli 29 , Luis Sánchez-Guillén 30 , Antonio Arroyo 30 , Francisco López-Rodríguez 30 , Sandra Lario 30 , Cristina Lillo 30 , Steven D. Wexner 31 1 U.O. Chirurgia Generale, Ospedale "per gli Infermi", Faenza, AUSL Romagna, Italy 2 Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano (MI), Italy 3 Department of Surgical Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands 4 U.O. Chirurgia Generale e Terapie Oncologiche Avanzate, Ospedale "GB.Morgagni-L.Pierantoni", Forlì, AUSL Romagna, Italy 5 University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Philadelphia, USA 6 Division of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Aging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA 7 HPB Unit, Manchester Royal Infirmary, University of Manchester, UK 8 Unit of Biostatistics and Clinical trials, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori IRST IRCCS, Meldola, Italy 9 U.O. Chirurgia Generale, Ospedale "Ceccarini", Riccione, AUSL Romagna, Italy 10 U.O. Chirurgia Generale, Ospedale "Infermi", Rimini, AUSL Romagna, Italy 11 Department of Surgery, Ospedale di Piacenza, AUSL Piacenza, Italy 12 General, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, “San Matteo degli Infermi” Hospital, Spoleto, AUSL Umbria2, Italy 13 Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neurosciences, Unit of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology, University of Siena, Italy 14 Department of Colorectal Surgery, S. Rita Clinic, Vercelli, Italy 15 Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Catanzaro, Italy Journal of Geriatric Oncology 11 (2020) 244–255 Abbreviations and Acronyms: ADL, Activities of Daily Living; ASA, American Society of Anesthesiologists; CACI, Charlson Age Comorbidity Index; ECOG PS, Eastern Collaborative Oncology Group Performance Status; ERAS, Enhanced Recovery After Surgery; ESSO, European Society of Surgical Oncology; FR, Functional Recovery; fTRST, Flemish version of the Triage Risk Screening Test; G8, Geriatric 8; MDT, Multidisciplinary Team; NRS, Nutritional Risk Screening; PROMs, Patient Reported Outcome Measures; QoL, Quality of Life; RCT, Randomized Control Trial; SIOG, International Society of Geriatric Oncology; TUG, Timed up and Go test; VAS, Visual Analogue Scale. ⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail address: chiara.zingaretti@irst.emr.it (C. Zingaretti). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgo.2019.06.017 1879-4068/© 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Geriatric Oncology