Anatomical Distribution of Colorectal Carcinoma in Iran: A Retrospective 15-yr Study to Evaluate Rightward Shift

Clinicopathological Features of Colon Adenocarcinoma in Qazvin, Iran: A 16 Year Study

“…Male/ female ratio in our study was close to similar studies in Iran (Fazeli et al, 2007;Omranipour et al, 2012), but was lower than that has reported by Safaee (Safaee et al, 2012), a study based on national CRC registration in whole Iran. Male predominance has also been reported by other studies in Asia (Rashid et al, 2009;Shaikh et al, 2009).…”

“…Studies performed in western countries (Redstone and Odze, 2009) and Japan (Toyoda et al, 2009) showed that the trend of CRC is toward right side of colon, but this trend has not been seen in some studies in Iran (Hosseini et al, 2004;Omranipour et al, 2012). However, the trend was seen in present study.…”

“…Mean age of our patients was slightly lower than study of Safaee performed on CRC in Iran (Safaee et al, 2012), but higher than other studies conducted in Tehran city (Fazeli et al, 2007;Omranipour et al, 2012). These minor variations are acceptable considering different material and methods of the studies.…”

Prevalence of Local Recurrence of Colorectal Cancer at the Iranian Cancer Institute

“…However, in the Iranian population colorectal cancers have shown a shift to the left side of the colon (Omranipour et al, 2012) and we also reported higher number of rectal cancers in the current study. There has been no significant increase in colon cancer recurrence compared to rectal cancer.…”

Colorectal Cancer in Marrakech Tensift Elhaouz, Epidemiological and Anatomopathological Aspects, About 2584 Cases in 19 Years.

“…The CRC is generally in the histological 1038 form of adenocarcinoma. Nevertheless, other histological types exist but are much less common, such as neuroendocrine tumors, lymphomas, sarcomas, and squamous cell carcinomas, which can also be found in the rectum [49][50][51][52]. The incidence of each of these forms is difficult to calculate.…”