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Article: Colorectal cancer. (Continuing Professional Development).
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- Primary Health Care
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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In brief
Author
Lynn de Snoo, colorectal cancer nurse specialist, St Peters Hospital, Chertsey, Surrey
Summary
Colorectal cancer is a general label applied to cancers occurring in the colon or rectum (see diagram 1). Each year in the UK, 56 people out of every 100,000 will be diagnosed with this type of cancer, often at a stage too advanced for successful surgical removal. As ...