2024
DOI: 10.4251/wjgo.v16.i3.583
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Early-onset gastrointestinal cancer: An epidemiological reality with great significance and implications

John K Triantafillidis,
Konstantinos Georgiou,
Manousos M Konstadoulakis
et al.

Abstract: During the last few years, epidemiological data from many countries suggest that the incidence and prevalence of many cancers of the digestive system are shifting from the older to the younger ages, the so-called “early-onset cancer”. This is particularly evident in colorectal cancer and secondarily in other malignant digestive neoplasms, mainly stomach and in a lesser degree pancreas, and biliary tract. It should be emphasized that data concerning digestive neoplasms, except for those referring to the colon a… Show more

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