Colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer in men and the third most common cancer in women, worldwide. Globally, there are 1.4 million new cases of colorectal cancer each year and it is responsible for 694 000 deaths annually [1].The patients are commonly found to have anaemia at the time of diagnosis. This can be due to many mechanisms such as bleeding
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