Are Colon and Rectal Cancer Two Different Tumor Entities? A Proposal to Abandon the Term Colorectal Cancer

Paschke, Stephan; Jafarov, Sakhavat; Staib, Ludger; Kreuser, Ernst-Dietrich; Maulbecker-Armstrong, Catharina; Roitman, M.; Holm, Torbjörn; C Harris, C; Link, Karl-Heinrich; Kornmann, Marko

doi:10.3390/ijms19092577

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Are Colon and Rectal Cancer Two Different Tumor Entities? A Proposal to Abandon the Term Colorectal Cancer

Published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences • Aug 30, 2018

Authors:

Stephan Paschke

Sakhavat Jafarov

Ludger Staib

Abstract

Colon cancer (CC) and rectal cancer (RC) are synonymously called colorectal cancer (CRC). Based on our experience in basic and clinical research as well as routine work in the field, the term CRC should be abandoned. We analyzed the available data from the literature and results from our multicenter...

Subject

Colorectal cancer

Medicine

Cancer

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