Are there two sides to colorectal cancer?

By B. Iacopetta. International Journal of Cancer, 2002

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Subfields: Oncology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine

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Citations in the corpus

• Distal and proximal colon cancers differ in terms of molecular, pathological, and clinical features. (2014, background): “Additionally, the differences in luminal content and bacterial flora between the left and right colon may influence oncogenesis [11].”
• Prognostic and predictive value of primary tumour side in patients with RAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer treated with chemotherapy and EGFR directed antibodies in six randomized trials † (2017, background): “Also, hereditary non-polyposis CRC is more likely to develop on the right side of the colon, whilst familial adenomatous polyposis is associated with the development of tumours on the left side of the colon [14, 18].”
• Classification of colorectal cancer based on correlation of clinical, morphological and molecular features (2007, background): “Nevertheless, particular morphological subtypes, such as mucinous carcinoma, have long been recognized and clinical features have been shown to differ according to anatomical subsite.(1) The evolution of CRC was also understood to proceed on the basis of a relatively uniform and linear sequence of s”
• Comparison of 17,641 Patients With Right- and Left-Sided Colon Cancer: Differences in Epidemiology, Perioperative Course, Histology, and Survival (2010, background): “In the present study, analysis of epidemiological data confirmed the gender and age relationship reported by other authors, with RCC being more common in older people and women.(7,8,13,14) The age difference was more pronounced in females compared with males.”