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Gastrointestinal cancer

• A comparison of the therapeutic effectiveness of gastrin neutralisation in two human gastric cancer models: relation to endocrine and autocrine/paracrine gastrin mediated growth (1 December, 1999)

  S A Watson, T M Morris, A Varro, D Michaeli, A M Smith
• Clinicopathological differences between colonic and rectal carcinomas: are they based on the same mechanism of carcinogenesis? (1 December, 1999)

  K Konishi, T Fujii, N Boku, S Kato, I Koba, A Ohtsu, H Tajiri, A Ochiai, S Yoshida
• Rectal epithelial apoptosis in familial adenomatous polyposis patients treated with sulindac (1 December, 1999)

  J J Keller, G J A Offerhaus, M Polak, S N Goodman, M L Zahurak, L M Hylind, S R Hamilton, F M Giardiello
• Notable intrafamilial phenotypic variability in a kindred with familial adenomatous polyposis and an APCmutation in exon 9

  (1 December, 1999)

  P Rozen, Z Samuel, R Shomrat, C Legum
• Flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy as a screening modality for colorectal adenomas in older age groups? Findings in a cohort of the normal population aged 63–72 years (1 December, 1999)

  E Thiis-Evensen, G S Hoff, J Sauar, B M Majak, M H Vatn
• Wheat bran affects the site of fermentation of resistant starch and luminal indexes related to colon cancer risk: a study in pigs (1 December, 1999)

  M J A P Govers, N J Gannon, F R Dunshea, P R Gibson, J G Muir