From colonic polyps to colon cancer: Pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and diagnosis

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 135-177

  Cappell, Mitchell S ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; APC PROTEIN; CELECOXIB; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; DNA; K RAS PROTEIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN BAT 26; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN KINASE LKB1; PROTEIN MSH2; PROTEIN P53; REPETITIVE DNA; SMAD4 PROTEIN; SULINDAC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANOREXIA; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BARIUM ENEMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHROMOSOME 10Q; CHROMOSOME 17P; CHROMOSOME 18Q; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CHROMOSOME DELETION 5; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL GENETICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON ADENOMA; COLON CANCER; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; COWDEN SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIARRHEA; DIET; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; ENDOMUCOSECTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; ENTERITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FAMILY HISTORY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL POLYPOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MARKER; GERM LINE; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JUVENILE POLYP; LABORATORY TEST; MALAISE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; METASTASIS; MISMATCH REPAIR; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; OCCULT BLOOD; ONCOGENE K RAS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEUTZ JEGHERS SYNDROME; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; SCREENING TEST; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SMOKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; SYNDROME; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TUMOR BIOPSY; TURCOT SYNDROME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 14644389336     PISSN: 02722712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cll.2004.12.010     Document Type: Review

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