Kohn氏认为人类若能控制心血管疾病、肿瘤、脑血管病疾、传染病等,则预期人类寿命将增加10年。随着我国人均寿命的延长及医疗水平不断提高,而近年来据统计老年人因肿瘤死亡的比例逐年有增无减,因此对老年人肿瘤的防治及研究更应引起足够的重视。本文就我院1953年至1983年底三十年间经病检确诊为肿瘤的60岁以上患者1277例作一统计分析。 Kohn’s view is that if humans can control cardiovascular diseases, tumors, cerebrovascular diseases, infectious diseases, etc., human life expectancy will increase by 10 years. With the prolongation of China’s per capita life expectancy and the continuous improvement of medical care, in recent years it has been reported that the proportion of old people’s death due to cancer has increased year by year. Therefore, more attention should be paid to prevention and research of cancers in the elderly. This article makes a statistical analysis of 1277 cases of patients over the age of 60 who were diagnosed as tumors during the 30 years from 1953 to 1983 in our hospital.