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SUBMITTER: Sample DC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6048881 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sample Danielle C DC Samadder N Jewel NJ Pappas Lisa M LM Boucher Kenneth M KM Samowitz Wade S WS Berry Therese T Westover Michelle M Nathan Deepika D Kanth Priyanka P Byrne Kathryn R KR Burt Randall W RW Neklason Deborah W DW
BMC gastroenterology 20180716 1
<h4>Background</h4>Patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) frequently undergo colectomy to reduce the 70 to 90% lifetime risk of colorectal cancer. After risk-reducing colectomy, duodenal cancer and complications from duodenal surgeries are the main cause of morbidity. Our objective was to prospectively describe the duodenal and gastric polyp phenotype in a cohort of 150 FAP patients undergoing pre-screening for a chemoprevention trial and analyze variables that may affect recommendat ...[more]