Open AccessColorectal Cancer: A Study of Risk Factors in a Tertiary Care Hospital of North Bengal
Author(s) -
Saurav Bhattacharya,
Rivu Basu,
Pranati Bera,
Ajay Halder
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2014/8844.5166
Subject(s) - medicine , colorectal cancer , incidence (geometry) , population , observational study , confidence interval , risk factor , population study , obesity , cancer , surgery , environmental health , physics , optics
Age, sex, living place (urban or rural), smoking, alcohol consumption, dietary pattern, obesity are considered as risk factors for Colorectal cancer. Our study was done to evaluate the association between these risk factors and colorectal cancer in the population of North Bengal.