Inheritance of colorectal cancer

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Mechanisms

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 293-300

  Burt, Randall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CANCER; COLON POLYPOSIS; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COWDEN SYNDROME; FAMILIAL CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PEUTZ JEGHERS SYNDROME; PHENOTYPE; POLYPECTOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 47049085414     PISSN: 17406765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ddmec.2008.05.004     Document Type: Review

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