Constipation, anthranoid laxatives, melanosis coli, and colon cancer: A risk assessment using aberrant crypt foci

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 753-757

  Nascimbeni, Riccardo ^a   Donato, Francesco ^a   Ghirardi, Mauro ^a   Mariani, Pierpaolo ^a   Villanacci, Vincenzo ^a   Salerni, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAXATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; COLON MELANOSIS; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVERTICULOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; INTESTINE CRYPT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOSIS; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SIGMOID CARCINOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATHARTICS; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CONSTIPATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MELANOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0036327845     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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