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Background: About half of the patients with rectal cancer will develop liver metastasis during the course of their illness. Unfortunately, a large proportion of these metastases are unresectable. Surgical resection of the primary tumor vs.
Jia-nan Chen +8 more
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Effect of mismatch repair genes expression in right colon cancer on pathological characteristics [PDF]
Objective To investigate the defect of expression of mismatch repair genes(MMR) including MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 and PMS2 in sporadic colon cancer, and analyze the expression of MMR related to pathological change of patients with right colon cancer.
YAN Wanneng, MA Haijie, SHEN Chaomin
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Rectal stenosis due to solitary pelvic recurrence of hilar cholangiocarcinoma
An 85‐year‐old woman was admitted to a hospital with abdominal pain. Five years prior to admission, she had a history of hilar cholangiocarcinoma of pStage IIIC. Contrast‐enhanced computed tomography showed a mass between the rectum and uterus as well as
Ikuma Shioi +6 more
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Cetuximab in colon cancer [PDF]
In the last decade remarkable progress has been made in the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer due to the introduction of oxaliplatin and irinotecan in clinical practice. The addition of biological agents seems to offer a chance to further enhance the activity of conventional chemotherapy.
F, Giuliani, G, Colucci
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Summary: Background/objective: Paraaortic lymph node (PALN) metastasis influences treatment strategy for colorectal cancer. The aims of this study were to elucidate the diagnostic value of computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET ...
Nozomu Nakai +10 more
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Quality assurance (QA) is a process that includes the systematic evaluation of a service, institution of improvements and ongoing evaluation to ensure that effective changes were made.
Robert J Hilsden +5 more
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Colonic Cancer and Acromegaly [PDF]
Acromegaly results in a significantly increased morbidity and mortality due to cardiovascular and respiratory complications, as well as malignancies arising mainly from the colon. Furthermore, an increased lifetime risk of malignant transformation of pre-malignant colonic lesions relates to a worse overall prognosis from colorectal cancer, which is ...
Dorota Dworakowska +4 more
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Colon cancer undergoes a traditional pathway from colon polyps to colon cancer. It is of great significance to investigate the key molecules involved in carcinogenesis from polyps to malignancies.
Ying Shi +7 more
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Survival analysis for colon subsite and rectal cancers: Experience from a single surgeon [PDF]
Purpose: The survival rates of patients with colorectal cancers have been well documented in many studies. Some studies have shown that proximal colon cancers have inferior survival rates when compared with distal colon cancers.
Inhwa Lee +5 more
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