Clinico-Pathological Patterns and Survival outcome of Colorectal Cancer in Young Saudi Arabian Patients

In Saudi Arabia, CRC incidence, morbidity and related mortality have been steadily increasing over the past twenty years (Ibrahim et al., 2008). There were 904 new cases of CRC accounting for 10.2 % of all newly diagnosed cancer patients in 2008 (Bazarbashi et al., 2008). This cancer ranks first among males and third among female population (male to female ratio of 112:100) with median age at diagnosis of 59 years in males and 57 years in females (Bazarbashi et al., 2008). In Saudi population, 20.9 % of CRC patients are younger than 45 years of age (Mosli, 2012a). This