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Published on: December 4, 2007
Difficult Causality Relationship between Colorectal Cancer and Schistosomiasis
Tchin Darre1,2, Toukilnan Djiwa3, Sassil Dare4
1Department of Pathology, University Teaching Hospital of Lome, Lomé, Togo. paolodarre@yahoo.fr.
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.
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