Proximal location of colon cancer is a risk factor for development of metachronous colorectal cancer: a population-based study

Gervaz, Pascal; Bucher, Pascal Alain Robert; Neyroud, Isabelle; Soravia, Claudio; Morel, Philippe

doi:10.1007/s10350-004-0805-7

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Proximal location of colon cancer is a risk factor for development of metachronous colorectal cancer: a population-based study

ContributorsGervaz, Pascal; Bucher, Pascal Alain Robert; Neyroud, Isabelle; Soravia, Claudio; Morel, Philippe

Published inDiseases of the colon & rectum, vol. 48, no. 2, p. 227-232

Publication date2005

Abstract

This study was undertaken to assess the incidence of 1) metachronous colorectal cancer and 2) subsequent extracolonic cancers, in relation to the location (proximal or distal to the splenic flexure) of the first primary colorectal tumor.

Keywords

Adenocarcinoma/epidemiology/pathology/surgery
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Analysis of Variance
Colonic Neoplasms/epidemiology/pathology/surgery
Colorectal Neoplasms/epidemiology/pathology/surgery
Female
Humans
Incidence
Male
Middle Aged
Neoplasms, Second Primary/epidemiology/pathology/surgery
Registries
Risk Factors
Statistics, Nonparametric
Switzerland/epidemiology

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GERVAZ, Pascal et al. Proximal location of colon cancer is a risk factor for development of metachronous colorectal cancer: a population-based study. In: Diseases of the colon & rectum, 2005, vol. 48, n° 2, p. 227–232. doi: 10.1007/s10350-004-0805-7

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PID : unige:39916
DOI : 10.1007/s10350-004-0805-7
PMID : 15711864

ISSN of the journal0012-3706

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Proximal location of colon cancer is a risk factor for development of metachronous colorectal cancer: a population-based study

This study was undertaken to assess the incidence of 1) metachronous colorectal cancer and 2) subsequent extracolonic cancers, in relation to the location (proximal or distal to the splenic flexure) of the first primary colorectal tumor.

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