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• Gender: male
• Lifestyle :
– high fat and low fiber diet
III: N +ve
IV: M +ve
Screening
• American cancer society has recommended to
begin screening at age 50 in average risk
patient by either:
Annual fecal occult blood tests or flexible
sigmoidoscopy every 5 years
Double contrast Barium enema every 5 years
Colonoscopy every 10 years
• Intensive Surveillance is recommended for
patients at high risk
Workup
• History & Physical examination
Digital rectal examination, inguinal L.N.s
• Proctoscopy
• Sigmoidocolonoscopy
• Pathological confirmation of adenocarcinoma by colonoscopy or
CT guided biopsy
• Blood CP, LFTs, RFTs, S.CEA
• CT SCAN abdomen and pelvis e contrast
• EUS
• CXR
• MRI
• PET : useful in evaluating patient with oligometastatic disease
who may be candidate for resection of metastatic disease with
curative intent
Prognostic factors
Good prognostic factors Poor prognostic factors
Old age Obstruction
Gender(F>M) Perforation
Asymptomatic pts Ulcerative lesion
Adjacent structures
Polypoidal lesions
involvement
Positive margins
LVSI
Signet cell carcinoma
High CEA
Tethered and fixed cancer
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