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Metastatic Colorectal Cancer in Young Adults: A Study From the South Australian Population-Based Registry.
Clinical colorectal cancer - 1 Mar 2016
Vatandoust Sina, Price Timothy J, Ullah Shahid, Roy Amitesh C, Beeke Carole, Young Joanne P, Townsend Amanda, Padbury Robert, Roder David, Karapetis Christos S
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BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common malignancy. There is growing evidence that CRC incidence is increasing in the younger population. There is controversy surrounding the prognosis of young patients with CRC. In this study we reviewed Australian patients with metastatic CRC (mCRC) who were younger than 40 years of age at the time of diagnosis of metastatic disease. To our knowledge this is the first...
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