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Article: Experiences of Japanese patients with colorectal cancer during the first six months after surgery.(Clinical report)
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- Oncology Nursing Forum
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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With the current trend toward Westernization of Japanese lifestyle, the incidence of colorectal cancer in Japan has been increasing annually. In 2004, the death rate for colorectal cancer per 100,000 in Japan was 35.4 for men and 28.2 for women, with mortality rankings of fourth and first, respectively (Health and Welfare Statistics Association, 2006). Although the leading cause of cancer deaths in Japan in the past decade was lung cancer among men and gastric cancer among women, colorectal cancer has overtaken gastric cancer as the leading cause of cancer deaths among women.
For patients who undergo surgical treatment of colorectal cancer, the five-year survival ...