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. 2003 May;18(3):210-5.
doi: 10.1007/s00384-002-0461-0. Epub 2002 Dec 14.

From dinosaurs to DNA: a history of colorectal cancer

Hugh E Mulcahy  1 , John Hyland, Diarmuid P O'Donoghue
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From dinosaurs to DNA: a history of colorectal cancer

Hugh E Mulcahy et al. Int J Colorectal Dis. 2003 May.

Abstract

The roots of colorectal cancer date back to antiquity. In this short history of colorectal cancer we trace its clinical and research origins from ancient times through the dark ages, middle ages, to the scientific and medical advances of the seventeenth to twentieth centuries and into the twenty-first century.

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