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Familial aspects of colorectal cancers in southern littoral of Caspian Sea.
Archives of Iranian medicine - 1 May 2011
Fakheri Hafez, Bari Zohre, Merat Shahin
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BACKGROUND: About 50,000 new cancer cases occur annually in Iran, of which gastrointestinal (GI) cancers are the most common. Colorectal cancers (CRC) account for the third and fourth most prevalent cancers amongst Iranian men and women, respectively. Since CRC has some well-known hereditary forms with differences in their prevalence according to regional heterogeneity, we designed a study to assess familial...
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