KUALA LUMPUR: Colon cancer or colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer in the country, with 13.5% of cases after breast cancer (19%), says Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
He said the Malaysian National Cancer Registry 2012-2016 report showed that colorectal cancer was also the most common cancer in men (16.9%) and second most common in women (10.7%).
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