Rectal Cancer in Asian vs. Western Countries: Why the Variation in Incidence?

Current Treatment Options in Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2017, Pages

  Deng, Yanhong ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asia incidence; Etiology difference; Incidence trend; Rectal cancer; Risk factors; Treatment algorithm

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL FOOD; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COLON CANCER; DIET; DISTAL COLON CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAT INTAKE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROXIMAL COLON CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; ALGORITHM; ASIA; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COLON TUMOR; EUROPE; INCIDENCE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RECTUM TUMOR;

ALGORITHMS; ASIA; CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EUROPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 85029893156     PISSN: 15272729     EISSN: 15346277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11864-017-0500-2     Document Type: Review

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