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Colon Cancer
Research Paper # 20568
Colon Cancer
Factors discussed include Incidence, causes, risk factors, diet & exercise, diagnosis, colonoscopy, lesions, treatment, surgery and chemotherapy.
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1993
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"COLON CANCER: ETIOLOGY, SYMPTOMS, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENTColon cancer is the second most prevalent cancer in the United States, lung cancer being the first. It is also second to lung cancer in mortality rate (19:816). In 1990 there were about 155,000 new cases of colorectal cancer reported, and 61,000 deaths. The incidence in the general population is 5% (15:80). Although the number of cases is increasing, the rate is proportional to the population increase (8:301).
Yet in spite of the high incidence of colon cancer, we still do not have a sound basis for delineating the causes and mechanism of colon carcinoma growth (15:80). Nor do we have a means of curing the disease in every case. The five-year survival rate is about 50% (10:241). Nevertheless considerable advances have been made within the last 10 years in confirming the.."
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Colon Cancer (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 11, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Research-Paper-Colon-Cancer/20568
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"Colon Cancer" 15 January 2012. Web. 11 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Research-Paper-Colon-Cancer/20568>
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