Table 1.

Reported cases with colon cancer in young patients.

	Age-sex (m: male f: female)	Symptom	Site of tumour and histology	Treatment	Survival
Shih et al. [2]	15, m	Epigastric pain, decreased apetite, mild watery diarrhea	Hepatic flexura of the colon/mucinous type adenocarcinoma	Palliative ileosigmoidostomy Chemo-ND*	1 month after surgery
Tung et al. [6]	31 y, m	Persistent abdominal pain, vomiting Subacute intestinal obstruction	Rectosigmoid side of colon signet ring cell carcinoma	Radical surgical resection Chemo-ND	ND*
Messerini et al. [7]	10 y, f	Subacute intestinal obstruction, recurrent vague abdominal pain	Descending and sigmoid colon/poorly differentiating mucin secreting adenocarcinoma	Left hemicolectomy; 5 FU + Leucovorin	8 months-recurrence free as known. No further information.
Fu et al. [8]	16 y, f	Abdominal pain, rectal bleeding	Sigmoid colon/signet ring cell carcinoma	Hemicolectomy + anterior resection Chemo-ND	ND
Thota et al. [9]	17 y, m	Progressive right sided abdominal pain and swelling	Ascending colon/signet ring cell carcinoma	Right colon resection + ileocolic anastomosis FOLFOX-6	1 year
Ko et al. [10]	13, m	Abdominal pain, poor apetite, abdominal fullness	Ascending colon/signet cell carcinoma	Right hemicolectomy; 5 FU + Leucovorin Levamisole Sisplatin	1 year, 5 months.
Özgül et al.	19 y, m	Persistant abdominal pain, weight loss	Sigmoid colon/signet ring cell carcinoma	Palliative colostomy FOLFOX-6 + bevacizumab	ND

 *ND: not determined.