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Characteristics of metachronous colorectal carcinoma occurring despite colonoscopic surveillance.
Diseases of the colon and rectum - 1 May 1997
Leggett B A, Cornwell M, Thomas L R, Buttenshaw R L, Searle J, Young J, Ward M
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PURPOSE: Metachronous colorectal cancer still occurs in a small percentage of patients, despite colonoscopic surveillance. Cancers in hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer for which there is a high risk of metachronous cancer show distinctive DNA changes termed replication errors (RER+). Ten to 20 percent of sporadic colorectal cancers are also RER+. The aim of this study was to identify factors predictive of...
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