Colorectal carcinoma in a Southern Mediterranean country: The Libyan scenario

Table 2 Distribution of the cases in terms of clinical staging, site of cancer and histopathological grade

	Overall		Male		Female
Clinical stage (n/%)
I-A	3	2.4	1	1.5	2	3.4
I-B	7	5.6	5	7.6	2	3.4
II-A	28	22.4	12	18.2	16	27.1
II-B	11	8.8	6	9.1	5	8.5
III-A	5	4.0	4	6.1	1	1.7
III-B	11	8.8	5	7.6	6	10.2
III-C	12	9.6	7	10.6	5	8.5
IV	48	38.4	26	39.4	22	37.3
Total	125	100.0	66	100.0	59	100.0
Site of cancer (n/%)
Right side	30	21.4	14	18.9	16	24.2
Left side	110	78.6	60	81.1	50	75.8
Total	140	100.0	74	100.0	66	100.0
Histopathological grade (n/%)
Well differentiated	29	33.3	17	35.4	12	30.8
Moderately differentiated	47	54.0	27	56.3	20	51.3
Poorly differentiated	11	12.6	4	8.3	7	17.9
Total	87	100.0	48	100.0	39	100.0