title: The patients knowledge about the role of calcium in the primary prevention of colorectal cancer.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective of this research was to become aquainted with patients' knowledge of the calcium role in the primary prevention of colorectal cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  A group of 400 patients treated in Nikolay Pirogov Provincial Specialist Hospital in Łódź was interviewed by means of the author's own survey in which specific tools were used to become aquainted with patients' knowledge of the calcium role in the primary prevention of colorectal cancer. The necessary statistics were conducted by means of STATISTICA 7.1 and EXCEL 2008 programmes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The analysis of the results shows that 363 (90.7%) of respondents did not know about the protective role of calcium in the digestive tract and reduce the risk of colorectal cancer. The study shows that 396 (99.0%) of respondents were not informed by doctors about the protective effect of calcium in the digestive tract. In this survey 357 (89.25%) of respondents did not know what is the recommended daily intake of calcium in the diet.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of the study shows that patients do not know about the role of calcium in primary prevention of colorectal cancer and were not informed by their doctors about such action of calcium. Patients were not aware of the need to consume the Recommended Dietary Allowance of calcium in the diet, which shows little knowledge of the subjects on the diet. It seems necessary to change the eating habits of patients, while the introduction of nutrition education from an early age in the society. Such actions may prevent in the future many civilization diseases.
authors.affiliation: Department of General and Vascular Surgery, Nikolay Pirogov Provincial Specialist Hospital in Łódź, Poland ; Postgraduate Studies in Nutrition and Dietetic Counseling at the Department of Human Nutrition and Consumer, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Konrad
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wroński
authors.forename: Roman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bocian
keywords: colorectal cancer; knowledge; patients; primary prevention