title: Profile of colorectal cancer at a community hospital with a multiethnic population.
abstract: A retrospective 10-year review of all (311) new cases of colorectal cancer at a community hospital serving a multiethnic urban population was carried out in order to study characteristics of the disease other than incidence and mortality rates. There was a striking similarity despite ethnic differences in most characteristics. The only differences between ethnic groups seen were anatomic distribution of cancer in the colon (statistically significant) and male-to-female ratio of colon cancer (apparent but not statistically significant). Characteristics are classified into three types: (1) Not influenced by ethnicity or by environment: Dukes' stage at presentation, colon-to-rectum ratio, histology, length of hospital stay, survival; (2) Possibly influenced by environment. mean age, male-to-female ratio, presence of synchronous polyps, duration of symptoms; (3) Influenced by ethnicity: anatomic distribution of cancer in the colon.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Mount Saint Joseph Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Moffet
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D044466:Asian People; D001955:British Columbia / Q000453:epidemiology; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013997:Time Factors; D044465:White People