Cavallaro V, Mirone I, Catania V, Bonaccorso R, Barbarino F, Lizzio A
Istituto di I Clinica Chirurgica Generale e Terapia Chirurgica, Università degli Studi, Catania.
Minerva Chir. 1997 Dec;52(12):1495-502.
The authors underline the role of inheritance in colorectal cancer and reporting the genealogical study of two families with high incidence of colorectal cancers personally observed. They thought that the genetic endowment (oncogenes, suppressor genes, microsatellite instability, protein-kinase C) was implicated directly in the genesis of disease.