[Epidemiology of colorectal tumors with special reference to the status in East Germany].
Colorectal cancers are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the GDR and affect almost 3% of the population by age 75. The age-standardized incidence rate has increased and this probably reflects a true rise in the frequency of carcinomas of these sites. At the beginning of the treatment only 42% were in a sufficiently localized stage of the disease so that curative radical surgery might be attempted. Such operations are widely decentralized in the GDR. Only 15% of all patients were alive 5 after treatment was initiated.
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005859:Germany, East; D006801:Humans; D007417:Intestinal Polyps / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012737:Sex Factors
Zur Epidemiologie der kolorektalen Tumoren unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Situation in der DDR.