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Early Colorectal Cancer

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Practice and Principles in Therapeutic Colonoscopy

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Recently, the incidence of early colorectal cancer is increasing, and endoscopic resection is accepted as a standard therapy in selectd T1 colorectal cancers. In this chapter, diagnosis, treatment, surveillane and prognosis of T1 colorectal cancer are introduced.

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Han, K.S. (2018). Early Colorectal Cancer. In: Sohn, D. (eds) Practice and Principles in Therapeutic Colonoscopy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46552-3_4

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