Quality of life in survivors of colorectal carcinoma

Colon carcinoma is a common malignancy that accounts for a substantial share of all cancer‐related morbidity and mortality. However, little is known with regard to general and disease specific quality of life in survivors of colorectal carcinoma, particularly from community‐based samples of cases across stage and survival times from diagnosis.

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