title: Anaemia as a symptom of right colon cancer.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The aim of our study is to determine the proportion of iron deficiency anaemia in patients with right colon cancer at diagnosis and to remind of the need of investigation of the large bowel in patients presenting with anaemia.
  
  
  METHODS
  From 1988 to 2003, 86 patients with right colon cancer underwent operative management.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seventy-five patients (87.2%) with right colon cancer had anaemia at diagnosis. The mean Ht value was 33.00% (ranging from 16 to 47%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Iron deficiency anaemia is a common symptom of right colon cancer. During the evaluation of patients with iron deficiency anaemia, examination of the right colon is needed.
authors.affiliation: 4th Surgical Department, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kanellos
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kitsios
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kanellos
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Demetriades
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Pramateftakis
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Angelopoulos
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Betsis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D018798:Anemia, Iron-Deficiency / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003082:Colectomy / Q000379:methods; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D017678:Sex Distribution; D016019:Survival Analysis