Nawfel Mellas

Publications

• Research Article   
  Comparison of epidemiological criteria for colorectal cancer over 10 years: incidence, therapeutic management and overall survival
  Author(s): Youssef Elhaitmy*, Zineb Benbrahim, Soukaina El Anssari, fatimazahra Bartal, Lamiae Amaadour, Karima Oualla, Samia Arifi and Nawfel Mellas
  
  Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is ranked among the most common cancers in the world, third after breast and prostate cancer and second digestive cancer in Morocco after gastric cancer. However, its incidence in our country remains lower than that of Western countries (2.5 to 3.3/100,000 ha). Knowledge of the epidemiological characteristics of CRC will certainly condition our therapeutic attitudes. The aim of this article is to compare the epidemiological, anatomopathological and therapeutic characteristics over ten years and to show that progress in recent years in terms of treatment has contributed to the increase in survival rates. We included 571 patients in a retrospective study with CRC treated at the medical oncology department of Fez over a period from June 2014 to June 2023. The Kaplan Meier method was used to estimate the median survival. There is a slight male predominance. The ave.. Read More»
  

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