We tested the correlation between diabetes and aggressiveness of colorectal polyps in diabetic patients and matched non-diabetic controls. We retrospectively studied 3,505 type 2 diabetes (T2DM) patients without gastrointestinal symptoms who underwent colonoscopy for colorectal cancer at Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea from August 1995 to August 2009. We matched 495 non-diabetic subjects w...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of Serrated polyps of colonic polyps samples in Hazrat_e Rasoul_e Akram Hospital over ten years. MATERIALS The target group in this study was patients with colonic polyps in Hazrat_e Rasoul_e Akram Hospital. Pathologic evaluation of these patients was done. Serrated polyps, by location, gender, age and type of polyps were div...

     Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is a hereditary autosomal dominant cancer syndrome, results from germ line mutation or deletion of the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC) gene on chromosome 5q21. Patients with FAP suffer from multiple polyps mainly at the colorectal region as well as other parts of the gastrointestinal tract, which has propensity to transform into carcinoma. FAP has also...

The term 'polyposis coli' applies to a condition of multiple polyps of the large intestine and is used synonymously with 'familial polyposis' and 'multiple adenomatosis'. The latter name emphasizes the fact that the individual polyps of this disease in no way differ from adenomas observed as solitary lesions. The object of this paper is to describe the histopathology, clinical features, and fam...

objectives: familial adenomatous polyposis (fap) is an autosomal dominant predisposition to colon cancer. this hereditary genetic disease is characterized by more than 100 adenomatous polyps in colon and rectum. additional features may include desmoids tumors, polyps in the upper gastrointestinal tract, osteomas and congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium (chrpe). a mutation in...

Numerous experimental, epidemiologic, and clinical studies suggest that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), particularly the highly selective cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 inhibitors, have promise as anticancer agents. NSAIDs restore normal apoptosis in human adenomatous colorectal polyps and in various cancer cell lines that have lost adenomatous polyposis coli gene function. NSAIDs also i...