Prediction of colorectal cancer risk among adults in a lower middle-income country

Globally, colorectal cancer (CRC) is an important public health problem (1). In 2015, it was the fourth ranking cancer worldwide, the second most common cancer among men and the third among women in the South-East Asia region (2). Cancer incidence data of Sri Lanka in 2010 ranked CRC as the fourth common cancer among men and sixth common among women (3)