Preventing bowel cancer: an insight for clinicians

Worldwide, colorectal cancer causes 610,000 deaths annually with 38,000 new cases diagnosed in the UK and 16,000 deaths each year. The prognosis is directly related to the staging of the cancer at diagnosis, with an overall 5-year survival rate of approximately 50%. However, for localized disease th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andrew R. Hart, Hugh J. Kennedy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2011-11-01
Series:Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1758834011419550