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This article reviews the high incidence of colon cancer in Western countries; the contribution of cell biology and biochemistry to our knowledge of the behaviour of the disease is discussed. The use of a series of markers to obtain early evidence of metastasis and to make the prognosis is described. Some suggestions are made how to obtain improvements in the survival percentages.
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Cooper, E.H., Campobasso, O. Cancer of the large intestine in man: Progress and problems. La Ricerca in Clin. Lab. 6, 1–12 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02901484
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