title: Synchronous colorectal cancer in an Oriental population.
abstract: Thirty-four (4.1%) out of 820 patients operated for colorectal cancer between April 1989 and October 1992 were found to have synchronous cancers. Twenty (59%) were male and 14 (41%) were female. The mean age was 69.3 years (range = 25 to 89 yr). Synchronous tumours were located in the same or adjacent segments of the large intestine in 24 (71%) of the patients. A curative resection was performed in 27 (79%) patients, a palliative resection in 8 (18%) and one (3%) patient had a palliative colostomy only. Dukes' staging based on the worse of the 2 cancers showed 1 (3%) Dukes' A, 11 (32%) Dukes' B, 14 (38%) Dukes' C and 9 (27%) with disseminated disease. Age, sex and Dukes' staging did not differ significantly from those of patients with solitary cancers and prognosis was also not adversely affected.
authors.affiliation: Department of Colorectal Surgery, Singapore General Hospital.
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Eu
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Seow-Choen
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Goh
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000601:surgery; D011379:Prognosis; D012846:Singapore / Q000453:epidemiology