Reduced incidence of rectal cancer, compared to gastric and colonic cancer, in a population of 73,076 men and women chronically immunosuppressed

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 51-55

  Stewart, Thomas ^a   Henderson, Robin ^b   Grayson, Helen ^c   Opelz, Gerhard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; OKT 3; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON CANCER; FEMALE; GERMANY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH CANCER;

ANIMALS; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICE; RATS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031041825     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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