Is there a causal connection between bile acids and colorectal cancer?

Surgery Today

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 101-104

  Tocchi, Adriano ^a   Basso, Luigi ^a   Costa, Gianluca ^a   Lepre, Luca ^a   Liotta, Gianluca ^a   Mazzoni, Gianluca ^a   Sita, Adalgisa ^a   Tagliacozzo, Sandro ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

bacterial; bile acids; cancer; colon; flora; rectum

Indexed keywords

BILE ACID; CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE ACID METABOLISM; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHOLELITHIASIS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0029873326     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00311772     Document Type: Article

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