Epidemiology and Prevention. I-3. Pathologic and Molecular Characteristics of Colorectal Cancer

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Colorectal cancer (CRC) has shown the tendency to increase year by year. CRC was the second most common tumor in males and the third most common among females in Korea in 2018, according to the National Cancer Registration Statistics.

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Chun, H.J., Park, S.J., Lim, Y.J., Song, S.Y. (2023). Epidemiology and Prevention. I-3. Pathologic and Molecular Characteristics of Colorectal Cancer. In: Gastrointestinal Cancer. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0815-8_33

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