Colorectal Cancer in Patients 20 Years Old or Less in Taiwan

Gastrointestinal tract carcinoma in pediatric and adolescent age: The Italian TREP project experience

“…The relatively high number of patients still alive after disease diagnosis in this series is mainly due to the fact that two of them had just completed their cancer treatment and one patient was still on treatment at the time of the present report. As seen in previous studies, patients with more extensive disease (stages IIIC–IV) usually had a worse prognosis, with early tumor relapse or progression after treatment.…”

“…As shown in Supplementary Tables S1 and S2, this is the first prospective Italian cooperative study on GI carcinomas. All the previous studies on GI tract carcinomas in young people in the last 30 years were retrospective single‐institution series concerning only a handful of cases seen over broad periods of time, and most of them concerned patients ≤30 years of age. The only reports with a more substantial body of data are those published by tumor registries (e.g., Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results).…”

Clinicopathological pattern and HER 2/neu status in patients presenting with different histological grades of colorectal carcinomas

“…23 It was predominantly a disease of elderly but now the incidence is on the rise in younger patients, 24 in Pakistan also, 25 as depicted in our study too in which 6% of the patients presented between 35-40 years of age. 23 It was predominantly a disease of elderly but now the incidence is on the rise in younger patients, 24 in Pakistan also, 25 as depicted in our study too in which 6% of the patients presented between 35-40 years of age.…”

Colorectal cancer in the young: a 12‐year review of patients 30 years or less

“…Rectal bleeding and change in bowel habits are the predominant presenting symptoms [7,8]. Pain, which is more frequently a presenting complaint in younger patients [1,5,6], was also common in our series.…”