Recognition of Lynch Syndrome Amongst Newly Diagnosed Colorectal Cancers at St. Paul’s Hospital

Table 3

Characteristics of patients who received further investigation compared to all patients.

	All patients	Patients receiving further investigation	value
	()	()
History
Average age of diagnosis	66	49	<0.01
Proportion of patients with past medical hx of malignancy	0.16	0.38	0.03
Proportion of patients with positive family hx of malignancy	0.46	0.92	<0.01
Pathology
Proportion of patients with age < 60 and high risk pathology	0.016	0.077	0.08
Colonoscopy & OR findings
Presence of metachronous or synchronous lesion	0.057	0.15	0.132

High risk pathology defined as any of the pathology findings fulfilling the Revised Bethesda Guidelines.