Abstract

SHORT REVIEW ON COLORECTAL CANCER

Ashima Sharma* and Shaveta Sharma

Abstract

Several decades ago, colorectal cancer had low incidence. In western countries, colorectal cancer has become a leading cancer and now considers for roughly 10% of cancer related mortality. The increase of colorectal cancer in progressed countries can be allocated to the progressivegly growing population, grow in risk factors such as smoking, low physical exercise and obesity and unfavourable modern dietary habits. For primary and metastatic colorectal cancer new treatments have appeared providing further choices for patients, for primary disease these treatments include laparoscopic surgery, metastatic disease undergo more-aggressive reception such as pulmonary and liver metastases, for rectal cancer radiography, neoadjuvant and palliative chemotherapies. These new treatment choices had finite effect on long-term survival and cure rates. The colorectal cancer is prolong preceded by screening programmes have gained momentum, a polypoid precursor. This manual imparts an overview of the present state of art knowledge on the epidemiology, colorectal cancer mechanism, diagnosis and treatment.

Keywords: Colorectal cancer, epidemiology, mortality, risk factors, genetic heterogeneity, diagnosis, screening, prevention, invasive surgery, laparoscopic surgery