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Increase Young Age Incidence of Colorectal Carcinoma Among Cohort of Egyptian Population.

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Background; Colorectal carcinoma (CRC) is not uncommon malignancy that represent a common cause of mortality worldwide as well as in Egypt however its overall incidence and mortality has been declining, still rising of CRC incidence were observed in young patients among Egyptian population, we felt that scanty of data available about incidence of colorectal carcinoma among Egyptians. Objectives: to investigate the disparity of age-related changes in CRC among cohort of Egyptian population. Patients and Methods: retrospectively we analysed eight years data including the data of 965 patients those had done colonoscopy for different clinical presentations and had been diagnosed as colorectal carcinoma over eighteen years from 2000 to 2018 at Tanta university hospital and Kafrelsheikh university hospital. Results: we found Increased CRC incidence over years, moreover CRC incidence was increased among studied cohort of Egyptian population below age 50 years old as 46.4% of total patients were below the age of 50 years old. Conclusions: Colorectal carcinoma in Egypt has no age predilection and not any more common over 50 years old, and even more rising in young population below 50 years old.

DOI

10.21608/aimj.2022.105010.1650

Keywords

Key words: colorectal carcinoma, Cancer, Gastrointestinal tract

Authors

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Elhadidy

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Atta

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Internal medicine department ,faculty of medicine, Tanta university

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ahmed.elhadedy@med.tanta.edu.eg

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tanta

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0000-0002-2225-8737

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Tamer

Last Name

Haydara

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Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt

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tamer_hidra@med.kfs.edu.eg

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tanta

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3

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1

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30582

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2022-01-01

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2021-11-11

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2022-01-01

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71

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75

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2682-3381

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2682-339X

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Al-Azhar International Medical Journal

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22 Jan 2023