Gender differences in characteristics of colorectal cancer patients: eight years' experience in tertiary care center

ABSTRACT

Introduction and Objectives: Colorectal cancer [CRC] has become a very common researched topic in Saudi Arabia. Significance of the disease lay as the third most common cancer in the Kingdom plus the various risk factors it may be connected to. Smoking, obesity, age, and gender should be further investigated in our community to focus our screening and minimize the burden of this disease. We tried to determine the differences between males and females in term of demographic, clinical and treatment characteristics