Clinical Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer in the Netherlands: studies of variation and trends with the Eindhoven Cancer Registry
Year: 2007
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The large bowel can be divided into the colon, the rectosigmoid, and rectum. The colon \nstarts where the small bowel ends. It is 1.5-1.8 metres long when stretched. The \nrectum forms the final 10-15 cm of the large bowel, opening to the outside at the anus. \nThe rectosigmoid is the transitional zone between the colon and the rectum 1. \nIn the Netherlands, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer (14%) among \nmales, after prostate (21%) and lung cancer (16%), and it is the second most frequent \ntumor (13%) among females after breast cancer (33%). In 2003, almost 10.000 \npatients were diagnosed with the disease; in this year, 4.500 patients died of the \ndisease 1. The incidence in the Netherlands compared to other European countries, is \nrelatively high, and ranks in the top-10 2. Worldwide, colorectal cancer accounted for \nabout 1 million of new cancer diagnoses in 2002, representing nearly 10% of all new \ncancers among both men and women 2. It occurs more frequently in the industrialised \nworld. The disease rarely occurs before age 40, the risk of colorectal cancer becomes \nhighest around age 70 1. The lifetime risk to develop colorectal cancer is 5.6% in the \nindustrialised world 1, 3. As a percentage of total mortality, the risk of dying from \ncolorectal cancer in
Author: V.E.P.P. Lemmens
Language: English
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1628305352