Guibert ALA, Quiroga MLE, Estrada BY, Maestre ROM, Guilarte LG

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ABSTRACT

Background: colon cancer is the third more frequent cause of morbidity and mortality for cancer in the world.
Objective: to characterize the patients with colon cancer.
Methods: a transversal and descriptive study was carried out aimed at characterizing patients with colon cancer in the Service of General Surgery of the Military Hospital Octavio de la Concepción y la Pedraja from October 2013 to August 2017. The universe was compound for 61 patients diagnosed with colon cancer.
Results: women prevailed in the study. Patients older than 60 years were the majority, specifically those from the 70 to 79 age group. The hairy adenoma is the more frequent antecedent followed by the ulcerative colitis. The low digestive bleeding was the form of predominant presentation in the patients and the left localization of the tumor was the most frequent. In most of the patients the colon cancer was well differentiated. The adenocarcinoma is the more frequent histological type.
Conclusions: women prevailed between 70 and 79 years with adenomas as pathological antecedents. Digestive bleeding was the clinical form of more frequent presentation, and it was associated to left localization. A part of the studied patients required surgical intervention and the most used technique was the left hemicolectomy. Most of the neoplasias were well differentiated with chronic inflammation.