Colonic cancer in adolescents. A report of three cases

Colorectal cancer is a common malignant neoplasm in adults, with a peak incidence of 60–79 years. About 1 million cases of the disease and half a million deaths associated with it are reported world-wide each year. Colorectal cancer, however, is very uncommon in children and adolescents. This is a p...

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Autores principales: Odike, M.A.C, Dongo, A. E, Alufohai, E.F, Odike, A. I
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139913
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2009.e34
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author Odike, M.A.C
Dongo, A. E
Alufohai, E.F
Odike, A. I
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description Colorectal cancer is a common malignant neoplasm in adults, with a peak incidence of 60–79 years. About 1 million cases of the disease and half a million deaths associated with it are reported world-wide each year. Colorectal cancer, however, is very uncommon in children and adolescents. This is a presentation of 3 cases of colon cancer in Nigerians aged 17 and 19 years. Two of them were adenocarcinoma and the other leiomyosarcoma. The pathogenesis and aspects of management are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-29944822010-12-07 Colonic cancer in adolescents. A report of three cases Odike, M.A.C Dongo, A. E Alufohai, E.F Odike, A. I Rare Tumors Case Report Colorectal cancer is a common malignant neoplasm in adults, with a peak incidence of 60–79 years. About 1 million cases of the disease and half a million deaths associated with it are reported world-wide each year. Colorectal cancer, however, is very uncommon in children and adolescents. This is a presentation of 3 cases of colon cancer in Nigerians aged 17 and 19 years. Two of them were adenocarcinoma and the other leiomyosarcoma. The pathogenesis and aspects of management are discussed. PAGEPress Publications 2009-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2994482/ /pubmed/21139913 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2009.e34 Text en ©Copyright M.A.C. Odike et al., 2009 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (by-nc 3.0).
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Colonic cancer in adolescents. A report of three cases
title Colonic cancer in adolescents. A report of three cases
title_full Colonic cancer in adolescents. A report of three cases
title_fullStr Colonic cancer in adolescents. A report of three cases
title_full_unstemmed Colonic cancer in adolescents. A report of three cases
title_short Colonic cancer in adolescents. A report of three cases
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139913
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2009.e34
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