title: [Cancer of the colon and rectum in young people].
abstract: A review of surgical treatment for cancer of the colon and rectum has shown that 5 of 87 patients were younger than 30 years old. The symptoms were abdominal pain and anemia and were present about 2 years before the hospital admission. The survival after the surgical treatment was, for all patients, 11 months.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D012811:Sigmoid Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Il cancro del colon e del retto nei giovani.