Erschienen in:
02.01.2019 | Letter to the Editor
Difficult Causality Relationship between Colorectal Cancer and Schistosomiasis
verfasst von:
Tchin Darre, Toukilnan Djiwa, Sassil Dare, Fousseni Alassani, Gado Napo-Koura
Erschienen in:
Pathology & Oncology Research
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Ausgabe 1/2020
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Abstract
The purpose of the study was to determine the nature of the association between colorectal cancer and schistosomiasis infection. This was a retrospective and descriptive study of colorectal cancers and to identify cases associated with schistosomiasis. A total of 814 cases of rectal colorectal cancer were collected and 3 cases were associated with schistosomiasis. These are 2 cases of Liberkunian adenocarcinoma and one case of malt lymphoma. The patients were all farmers and from rural areas. A co-infection with HIV was found in his 3 patients. Our data show an extreme rarity of the association colorectal cancer and schistosomiasis; it seems difficult to conceive of a causal relationship.