[CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS IN COLON CANCER E. REBAGLIATI MARTINS HOSPITAL 1995-1999].

In Peru, the Colorectal Cancer affects people of both sexes, making it necessary to know the clinical characteristics of this disease, in order to improve its diagnosis. With this purpose it was set a retrospective and descriptive study at E. Rebaglitati Martins Hospital. We included those patients that were attended between 1995 and 1999 and that had a pathologic diagnostic of colorectal cancer. The rectal tumor was the most frequent in males (40.9%) and females (31.3%). The kind of symptoms was related with the tumor localization, in rectum, it predominates hematochezia (29.13%), rectal bleeding (29.15%) and constipation (27.55%), while in the right colon there was abdominal pain (59.37%), lose of weight (53.12%) and pallor (46.87%). Between the fourth decades of age, there was a significant increase of the colorectal cancer prevalence. Likewise, 46.36% of the patients come to consult with an advance stage of disease (Dukes C,D). The carcinoembrionary antigen value was normal in 57.14% of patients. The colonoscopic exam associated with biopsy had a diagnostic success of 99.09%