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Colorectal cancer in pregnancy is uncommon. Colorectal cancer is the second most prevalent cancer in women in the United States.1 In general this is a disease of the middle-aged and the elderly. It is estimated that only 10% of colorectal cancers develop in women under the age of 40, or about 1 in 2000. In women under 30 only about 2% of colorectal cancers occur in this age group.2,3 A review by Bernstein et al4 of 42 cases of colorectal cancer in pregnancy showed that the mean age of the patients at time of diagnosis was 31 years. Recent estimates of the incidence of colorectal cancer in pregnancy are 1 in 10,000.5 This incidence might continue to rise as women tend to delay pregnancy to the mid-late thirties and early forties.
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Stemmer, S.M. (2001). Colorectal Cancer in Pregnancy. In: Barnea, E.R., Jauniaux, E., Schwartz, P.E. (eds) Cancer and Pregnancy. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0707-1_8
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