Research Article
Clinical Features and Outcome of Sporadic Colorectal Carcinoma in Young Patients: A Cross-Sectional Analysis from a Developing Country
Table 1
Baseline characteristics of the study population.
| | Variables | All colorectal carcinoma () | Colon cancer () | Rectal cancer () |
| | Age, mean (SD) | 33.3 (7.9) | 33.74 (8.0) | 32.80 (8.0) | | 16–25 years (%) | 24 (18) | 12 (17) | 12 (20) | | 26–35 years (%) | 44 (34) | 24 (33) | 20 (34) | | 36–45 years (%) | 63 (48) | 36 (50) | 27 (46) | | Gender, male (%) | 87 (66.4) | 50 (69.4) | 37 (62.7) | | Bleeding P/R (%) | 68 (51.9) | 18 (25) | 50 (84.7) | | Abdominal lump (%) | 16 (12.2) | 12 (16.7) | 4 (6.8) | | Intestinal obstruction (%) | 29 (22.1) | 21 (29.2) | 8 (13.6) | | Stage at diagnosis (%) | | | | | Stages 1 and 2 | 34 (26) | 22 (31) | 12 (20) | | Stages 3 and 4 | 97 (74) | 50 (69) | 47 (80) | | Grade of tumor (%) | | | | | Grade 1 | 8 (6.1) | 4 (5.6) | 4 (6.8) | | Grade 2 | 73 (55.7) | 47 (65.3) | 26 (44.1) | | Grade 3 | 50 (38.2) | 21 (29.2) | 29 (49.2) | | Presence of signet ring cell morphology (%) | 28 (21) | 6 (8) | 22 (37) | | Presence of polyps (%) | 10 (7.6) | 9 (12.5) | 1 (1.7) |
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