Abstract: Aim: to estimate the population attributable risk of consumption of red and processed meat for colorectal cancer in Colombia. Methods: to model the expected incidence of colorectal cancer in the hypothetical situation of no red and processed meat consumption in Colombia, for the year 2010. ...
ABSTRACT Sporadic colorectal cancer (CRC) is traditionally diagnosed after de sixth decade of life, although a small percentage of cases are diagnosed in patients under 40 years of age, and incidence is increasing. There exists a great volume of controversy regarding clinical outcome of young patients di...
Objetivos: Determinar las características clínico epidemiológicas de pacientes adultos jóvenes con cáncer colorrectal. Materiales y métodos: Se solicitó la información recolectada por la Dirección General de Epidemiología mediante la estrategia de vigilancia en enfermedades no transmisibles dur...
Introduction: Colorectal polyps are structures that project from the surface of the mucosal layer of the large intestine. They are classified as neoplastic or non-neoplastic. Early detection of pre-neoplastic lesions is important for preventing colorectal cancer. These can be resected so as to decrease t...
OBJETIVO: Determinar la relación que existe entre el consumo de la dieta vegetariana y el cáncer colorrectal en adultos de dos hospitales de Lima. MATERIAL Y MÉTODOS: Se realizó un estudio analítico de casos y controles considerando exposición al tipo de dieta y efecto al cáncer colorrectal. Se in...
Introduction: Colorectal cancer, in Portugal, presents as the second most common cancer and of cancer death cause. CRC is a disease of the elderly; however, there has been an increase of incidence in younger patients and doubts have emerged about its behavior, characteristics and prognosis in this group....