Colon Cancer and Saudi Population
Journal Title: International Journal of Contemporary Medical Research - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 8
Abstract
Colon cancer is one of the major reasons of morbidity and increasing mortality rate around the world as it accounts more than 9% incidence rate among all other sorts of cancers. Again, Colon cancer has been the most common cancer type among male population and the 3rd most common cancer among female population in Saudi Arabia This review article describes the epidemiological description of Colon cancer throughout the world and especially in case of KSA. This article includes incidence, mortality and survival rate, geographic variations and chronological trends of Colon cancer. Understanding the pathogenesis of colon cancer, effect of Vitamin D and calcium on Colon cancer and metastasis of colon cancer. People are more likely to have colon cancer if their family members have previous history of colon cancer, polyps and possibly other types of cancer. Genetic colon cancer is of two types and can be referred as polyposis and genetic non-polyposis colon cancer. Colon cancer is increasing radically and is becoming the third deadliest cancer type among different cancers. The incidence rate of Colon cancer is not stable and uniform worldwide. In total, incidence rate of Colon cancer in men population accounts for 9.4% while incidence rate of Colon cancer in female accounts for 10.1%. The incident of Colon cancer was diagnosed in 1984 among 288 people who have been diagnosed for gastrointestinal diseases. Among them only 1.5% people were diagnosed and identified with Colon cancer. Colon cancer is now a serious public health issue throughout the world and accounts for more than half millions of deaths every year. Incidence rate of Colon cancer is more in male population than female and rate of prevalence is much higher in developed countries. People older than 75 years are more susceptible to this disease while in KSA people with 60 years or even more are more vulnerable towards colon cancer.
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Rami Obaid Alharbi
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