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Colorectal cancer in South Africa: a heritable cause suspected in many young black patients.

South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde - 1 Feb 2009

Cronjé L, Paterson A C, Becker P J

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BACKGROUND: Colorectal carcinoma (CRC) has a low incidence among the black African population. Largely unrecognised in the scientific literature is the fact that a disproportionately large number of young black patients (<50 years old) present with CRC. OBJECTIVES: To analyse those tumours, which...

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