Background: Most patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer (CRC) are older than 60 years old. However, there remains a population of women of reproductive age (17-49) who develop CRC. Few publications ...

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Methods: We compiled data from 3,826 patients with colon and rectal cancer treated at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital from 1988-2009 and used Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results registry ...

Of the 376 patients, 57% were male and 43% were female, with mean age of 60.6. The authors found that acute emergency department presentation with colorectal cancer symptoms did not preclude ...