## INCIDENCE OF COLORECTAL CANCER Since 1985, the incidence and mortality of colorectal cancer in the United States have declined, but it remains the third most common cancer in men and women. In 1994, 160,000 new cases of colorectal cancer were diagnosed. Forty percent of the patients had distant
Surgical palliation of incurable urologic cancer
โ Scribed by Madhu Alagiri; Richard E. Greenberg
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 791 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0147-0272
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