Association between Appendectomy and Subsequent Colorectal Cancer Development: An Asian Population Study

OBJECTIVES: The appendix may modulate colon microbiota and bowel inflammation. We investigated whether appendectomy alters colorectal cancer risk. METHODS: We identified a cohort of 75979 patients who underwent appendectomy between 1997 and 1999 based on the insurance claims of Taiwan. A comparison...

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Udgivet i:PLoS One
Main Authors: Wu, Shih-Chi, Chen, William Tzu-Liang, Muo, Chih-Hsin, Ke, Tao-Wei, Fang, Chu-Wen, Sung, Fung-Chang
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4339380/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25710790
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118411
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