Estimation of colorectal cancer prevalence in France

The prevalence in France of patients with colorectal cancer was estimated u sing data from five population-based cancer registries. At the end of 1994. the number of cases diagnosed in France no more than 5 years before was ap proximately 95 000, of whom 12 180 had suffered metastasis and 9746 a local recurrence. This type of cancer is the most common in both men and women a nd these results enable the need for care or surveillance to be evaluated m ore accurately, (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.