CHRONIC INFLAMMATION AND CARCINOGENESIS: AN EXAMPLE OFCOLORECTAL CANCER IN INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEAS
BACKGROUND Inflammatory bowel diseases, ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, are a very heterogenous group of diseases. The basis is an inapropriate immune response of the bowel mucosato environmental factors in genetically predisposed persons. Incidence of inflammatorybowel disease is increasing...
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Language: | English |
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Slovenian Medical Association
2008-09-01
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Series: | Zdravniški Vestnik |
Online Access: | http://vestnik.szd.si/index.php/ZdravVest/article/view/866 |