Are Colon and Rectal Cancer Two Different Tumor Entities? A Proposal to Abandon the Term Colorectal Cancer

Are Colon and Rectal Cancer Two Different Tumor Entities? A Proposal to Abandon the Term Colorectal Cancer

Colon cancer (CC) and rectal cancer (RC) are synonymously called colorectal cancer (CRC). Based on our experience in basic and clinical research as well as routine work in the field, the term CRC should be abandoned. We analyzed the available data from the literature and results from our multicenter...

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Main Authors: Stephan Paschke, Sakhavat Jafarov, Ludger Staib, Ernst-Dietrich Kreuser, Catharina Maulbecker-Armstrong, Marc Roitman, Torbjörn Holm, Curtis C. Harris, Karl-Heinrich Link, Marko Kornmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-08-01
Series:International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Subjects:
colorectal cancer
colon cancer
rectal cancer
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/19/9/2577

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