Effects of weight change on metachronous adenomatous polyps
BACKGROUND: Numerous epidemiologic studies have identified obesity as a vital risk factor for the development of colorectal cancer (CRC). More recently, obesity has been linked to the development of colorectal adenomatous polyps (adenomas), the precursor lesion of up to 80% of CRCs. The extent to w...
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2018
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2144/26939 |