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Colorectal cancer, also called bowel cancer, is the third most common cancer in both males (14% of the male total) and females (11%) in the UK. In 2011, there were 41,581 new cases of bowel cancer in the UK. It is the second most common cause of cancer death in the UK, accounting for 10% of all deaths from cancer. The overall predicted 5-year survival rate is 59% for patients diagnosed with bowel cancer during 2010–2011 in England and Wales. Worldwide, it is also the third most common cancer, with more than 1,360,000 new cases diagnosed in 2012 (10% of the total) [1].
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Du, Y., Tudyka, V. (2017). Introduction of Colorectal Cancer. In: Du, Y. (eds) PET/CT in Colorectal Cancer. Clinicians’ Guides to Radionuclide Hybrid Imaging(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54837-1_1
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