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The initiation of colon cancer in a chronic inflammatory setting.
Carcinogenesis - 1 Sept 2005
Chen Ru, Rabinovitch Peter S, Crispin David A, Emond Mary J, Bronner Mary P, Brentnall Teresa A
Abstract excerpt
Chronic inflammation predisposes to cancer. We used an inflammation-induced human model of tumorigenesis to explore how populations of mutated cells expand and initiate the earliest stages of cancer. Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the colon associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer mediated through a process of genomic instability. In order to characterize the process of...
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