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Carcinogenesis in IBD: potential targets for the prevention of colorectal cancer.
Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology - 1 May 2009
Feagins Linda A, Souza Rhonda F, Spechler Stuart J
Abstract excerpt
In patients with IBD, chronic colonic inflammation increases the risk of colorectal cancer, perhaps because inflammation predisposes these tissues to genomic instability. Carcinogenesis in the inflamed colon seems to follow a different sequence of genetic alterations than that observed in sporadic cancers in the uninflamed colon. In this Review, we focus on the genetic alterations in colitis-associated colorectal...
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