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Colon cancer often diagnosed later in women: reasons unclear.(Clinical Rounds)
NEW ORLEANS -- Women are more likely to have advanced colon cancer at diagnosis and staging than are men, based on a study of Cincinnati-area colon cancer patients presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
"I cannot tell you why we found these results, but it does look as though men are more likely to be screened. I say that because men had almost 50% more carcinoma in situ. This is a disease that generally does not produce symptoms and is generally found with screening," said Dr. Scott E. Woods, director of epidemiology at Bethesda Family Practice, Cincinnati.
The researchers analyzed data from the TriHealth Tumor Registry, which encompasses three Cincinnati hospitals. The 2,891 patients (1,467 women and 1,424 men) included in the study were diagnosed with colon cancer between 1990 and 2002.
The investigators collected data on gender, cancer stage, age, smoking history, alcohol history, family history of colon cancer, marital status, and race. For the analysis, colon cancers were divided ...
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