title: Malignant tumours of the colon and rectum in patients aged 30 and younger.
abstract: Hospital records of the 27 patients, aged 30 years or younger, with carcinoma of the colon or rectum diagnosed 1969--1970, were reviewed. Predisposing diseases were found in 12 cases, 10 of these did not survive 5 years. Of 15 patients without predisposing disease 9 survived 5 years. The material is small but the prognosis does not seem to be worse in young patients with colonic cancer compared to elderly, provided the tumour has not developed from a predisposing disease. In such cases an early prophylactic operation must always be considered.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000150:complications; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D012811:Sigmoid Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery