background: mucinous adenocarcinoma colorectal cancer present at a more colorectal advanced stage of disease and showe a poorer prognosis than those with other types of carcinoma. the purpose of the present study was to clarify the clinicopathological characteristics of mucinous colorectal carcinoma in the iranian population. methods: 110 patients with mucinous adenocarcinoma were selected from...

Metastatic ovarian cancers occur in 3-8 percent of women undergoing surgical resection of a primary colorectal cancer. In this study we examined the characteristics of women with colorectal cancer for whom synchronous oophorectomy had been performed. In this cross-sectional study, records of patients with colorectal cancer from April 1991 through October 1999 who had undergone surgery for ...

background & objective: the current approaches to reduce the risk of colorectal carcinoma are through the detection and removal of the precursor lesion” adenomatous polyps”. the study was conducted to evaluate the immunohistochemical expression of p53 and bcl2 in colorectal adenomas and carcinomas. patients and methods: a total of 86 cases, 33 colorectal adenomas, 33 colorectal adenocarcin...

colorectal carcinoma is the most common gastrointestinal malignancy in the united states of america. in women the incidence is second to breast carcinoma; and in men it is the third most common carcinoma after lung and prostatic carcinoma. the overal incidence of colorectal carcinoma has had an increase in the first half of the past century, and has remained unchanged since. but the anatomic lo...

background and objectives: colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer and a major cause of morbidity globally. hepatocellular carcinoma is a leading cause of death in the world. about 80% of all anticancer drugs are somehow related to natural products. one of the most important of these natural compounds is curcumin, the main component of turmeric that has a wide range of pharmacological...

This study investigated the roles of Notch‑1 in colorectal carcinoma, to assess the mechanisms. The expression of Notch‑1 and its ligand-Jagged1 was detected in human colorectal carcinoma, colorectal adenoma, paracancerous tissue and normal colorectal tissue by immunohistochemistry. Colorectal carcinoma cell lines were utilized to confirm the expression of Notch‑1 in colorectal carcinoma cells....

BACKGROUND Synchronous colorectal carcinoma has seldom been studied in large series. The study was designed to examine the significance of colorectal synchronous carcinoma in a large cohort of patients. METHODS The clinicopathological features of 102 patients with synchronous colorectal carcinoma were compared with 1,793 patients with solitary colorectal carcinoma. RESULTS The prevalence of...

Synchronous colorectal carcinoma refers to more than one primary colorectal carcinoma detected in a single patient at initial presentation. A literature review has shown that the prevalence of the disease is approximately 3.5% of all colorectal carcinomas. This disease has a male to female ratio of 1.8:1. The mean age at presentation of patients with synchronous colorectal cancer is in the earl...