Ashfaq Ahmad, Ameer Afzal, Hafiz Muhammad Asif, Abhishek Chaudary, Khalid Masood Alam, Ali Azim Khawaja, Muhammad Azim Khawaja.
Changing Trends of Presentation in Colorectal Carcinoma.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;8(1):233-6.

Aim: To determine the changing trends of presentation in colorectal carcinoma. Place of study: East Surgical Ward, Mayo Hospital, Lahore. Study design: Descriptive case series Methods: This was a descriptive cases series. It was conducted at East surgical ward, Mayo Hospital, Lahore. Total 40 patients are included in the study. A comprehensively designed Performa was used to collect all relevant data. Results: Mean age of male and female patients was 40.50±15.94 and 41.56±13.19 years respectively. Gender distribution of patients shows that 60% patients were male and 40% patients were females. Most frequent site of tumor was rectum (40%) and cecum (20%) respectively. Tumor type of patients shows that 97% of the patients had Adenocarcinoma and 3% of the patients had other types of tumors. Conclusion: According to the results of this study it was found that onset of CRC was higher among the age group between 30-50 years, 77.5% cases were below 50 years which is against the present standard literature. Male predominance was seen over female patients. This shows that the rise in incidence of colorectal carcinoma is mostly due to environmental cause. This also shows that per rectal bleeding even in younger age group should not be overlooked.

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