Inflammation and Gastrointestinal Cancers

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jankowski, Janusz A. Z. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Recent Results in Cancer Research, 185
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gastroenterology.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.

Inflammation in gastrointestinal mucosa can remodel the topography of the overlying epithelium. If such inflammation is chronic, it has fundamental clinical consequences, the principal of which is premalignant metaplasia throughout the alimentary tract. Furthermore, mucosal inflammation, even if sub...