Various clinicopathological features of patients with metachronous colorectal cancer in relation to different diagnostic intervals.

Backgrounds: Clinicopathologic factors relating to developing metachronous colorectal cancer (CRC) have been reported. However, the effects of different diagnostic intervals on these risk factors required further analysis.

Patients And Methods: This retrospective study comprised 14,481 patients diagnosed from January 1995 to December 2012.