title: [Colorectal cancer. Experience in 120 patients].
abstract: The medical records of 120 patients with Colo-Rectal Cancer who were admitted between 1983 and 1990, were reviewed. The clinical, radiologic, epidemiologic, endoscopic and pathologic characteristic were analyzed in all the patients; also their follow up related to Age, CEA, Dukes and treatment. Late stage diagnosis (10.8% of the cases were diagnosed during obstructive episodes, and 48.3% of the cases were Dukes C and D) and the high mortality (34.1% of the patients died within the first year of the diagnosis), are still basic problems to be solved. The high percentage of patients less than 40 years old (25.8%) and the high incidence of rectal localization of the disease (49.1%), must prompt us to attempt to control the disease by means of colonic evaluation in young people with symptoms attributable to Hemorrhoids or Amebiasis.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Gastroenterología, Instituto Oncológico Luis Razetti, Caracas.
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Itriago Pels
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Carvajal
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Garrido
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Méndez
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bracho
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D003113:Colonoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors; D014687:Venezuela / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Cáncer colo-rectal. Experiencia con 120 casos.