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Does early polypoid colorectal cancer with depression have a pathway other than adenoma-carcinoma sequence?
Tumori - 1 Jan 2000
Kanazawa Takamitsu, Watanabe Toshiaki, Nagawa Hirokazu
Abstract excerpt
In the carcinogenesis of colorectal cancer, the concept of adenoma-carcinoma sequence is widely accepted. In this pathway, polypoid adenoma develops into early polypoid cancer and then progresses to advanced cancer. Alternatively, some groups insist that in the de novo pathway in which early cancers develop without preexisting adenoma, flat or depressed early cancers develop into advanced cancer. According to...
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