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Evaluation Of The Outcome And Toxicity In Patient With Colon Cancer Treated With Chemotherapy (Retrospective Study), Islam Salama, Mohsen Zekry, Hesham Alabady

Al-Azhar International Medical Journal

Background: Colo-rectal cancer (CRC) is the third most frequent cancer in the world, and the fourth greatest cause of cancer-related death. Surgery is followed by adjuvant chemo-therapy with either single agent capecitabine or a mixture therapy, chemotherapy toxicity might damage a cancer patients quality of life and lead to treatment cessation early. Hematological, gastrointestinal, constitutional, dermatological, and neurological toxicity are all common. Aim of the Work: To measure and evaluate chemotherapy toxicity in Colon patients undergoing adjuvant and metastatic treatment. Patients and Methods: This was retrospective stud y involved 158 cases of colon cancer established adjuvant and palliative chemotherapy and …