Right-sided colon cancers (RCC) and left-sided (LCC) have different epidemiological, physiological, pathological, genetic, clinical characteristics, which result in differences the course, prognosis, outcome of disease. The objective our study is to compare right-sided regarding clinicopathological survival characteristics. This a retrospective 664 patients with cancer treated at medical oncolo...

It has been suggested that colorectal cancer might not be one homogenous disease entity, based on the distinctive characteristics of its subsite of origin. Incidence data on 4,987 colorectal cancer were obtained from the Seoul Cancer Registry between 1993 and 1995. Age, sex, and subsite-specific incidence rates were compared. The age-standardized annual incidence rates of total colorectal cance...

thyroidism were shown to be the only three statistically significant independent predictors of mortality. Finally, with right colon involvement, surgery was more commonly required, and death was more frequently observed compared with the aggregate of all other patterns of IC. Carlson and Madoff [2] also suggested that the watershed zone was not especially vulnerable. Glauser et al. [3] also sug...

a 68 year old female housewife working occasionally in her own garden, sustained abdominal pain, discomfort and sometimes passing gaseous. her complaints started 25 years ago. she has been seen by many physicians in her hometown kermanshah and karand and having medical treatments almost with no effects. the pain continued on and off until became worse. she came to tehran and had an abdominal x-...

The treatment strategy of colonic injuries is a debatable and highly controversial subject worldwide in various medical centers. The method of treatment of left and .. right colonic injuries, diversity or similarity in their management and particularly differences between the treatment of war-associated injury from other types of colonic damage are among the unsettled issues. The present s...

Colon cancer is a major cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Adjuvant chemotherapy significantly reduces mortality in stage III colon cancer; however, it is only marginally effective in stage II patients. There is also increasing evidence that right-side colon cancer is different from left-side colon cancer. We have observed that the genes altered in expression between the poor and good pr...

Ulcerative colitis (UC) classification, which is an important task for endoscopic diagnosis, involves two main difficulties. First, images with the annotation about UC (positive or negative) are usually limited. Second, they show a large variability in their appearance due to location colon. Especially, second difficulty prevents us from using existing semi-supervised learning techniques, commo...

BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the world. In Brazil, it is the leading cause of cancer in the gastrointestinal tract. AIM To evaluate the preoperative, perioperative, and postoperative risk factors for recurrence and overall survival of patients with left colon cancer operated during a ten-year period. METHODS Patients with left colon cancer surgically treat...