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Small Bowel and Colon Cancer

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Colorectal cancer represents the most common malignant neoplasm of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract; according to GLOBOCAN 2020, it represents the third most prevalent cancer in general population, following breast and lung cancer [1]. On the other side, despite the small bowel constitutes about the 75% of the digestive tract’s length, malignant neoplasm is very rare, accounting for less than 5% of all GI cancer; in particular, adenocarcinoma is the most frequent small intestine cancer [2].

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    Marta Zerunian, Gisella Guido, Domenico De Santis, Damiano Caruso & Andrea Laghi

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Zerunian, M., Guido, G., De Santis, D., Caruso, D., Laghi, A. (2023). Small Bowel and Colon Cancer. In: Neri, E., Erba, P.A. (eds) Multimodality Imaging and Intervention in Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28524-0_12

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