Hormonal manipulation in the treatment of pancreatic carcinoma

✍ Scribed by B. A. Greenway

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 137 KB
• Volume: 75
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800750236

✦ Synopsis

Peptic ulcer surgery and colorectal cancer risk

Sir

We concur with the recently published paper by Toftgaard (Br J Surg 1987; 74: 573-5) and recent letter by Houghton and Mortensen (Br J Surg 1987; 74: 1066) that there is no statistically significant association between gastric surgery for benign peptic ulcer disease and the subsequent development of colorectal cancer (CRD). We examined, inter alia, the associations between previous surgery for benign peptic ulcer disease and CRC as part of a large, comprehensive, populationbased study of CRC incidence, aetiology and survival (The Melbourne Colorectal Cancer Study'). Previous peptic ulcer surgery was noted in 11 of 715 CRC cases and in 17 of 727 age and sex matched community