Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common malignant tumours in Poland. Annually approximately 11 000 new cases of CRC are diagnosed, while the number of deaths caused by CRC approaches 8 000. Five-year survival does not exceed 20%. Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is responsible for about 1% of new cases of CRC. The risk of CRC in FAP syndrome is 100%, and the average age of CRC dev...

Collaborative Representation Classification (CRC) for face recognition attracts a lot attention recently due to its good recognition performance and fast speed. Compared to Sparse Representation Classification (SRC), CRC achieves a comparable recognition performance with 10-1000 times faster speed. In this paper, we propose to ensemble several CRC models to promote the recognition rate, where e...

This paper studies constraint satisfaction over connected row-convex (CRC) constraints. It shows that CRC constraints are closed under composition, intersection, and transposition, the basic operations of path-consistency algorithms. This establishes that path consistency over CRC constraints produces a minimal and decomposable network and is thus a polynomial-time decision procedure for CRC ne...

colorectal cancer (crc) is the second leading cause of cancer death. progress has been made in the development of chemotherapy for advanced crc. targeted therapies against vegf or egfr are now commonly used. however, many cases show that tolerance develops to such treatments; therefore, new strategies are required to replace or complement current therapies. nuclear factor-?b (nf-?b) transcripti...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is considered to develop slowly via a progressive accumulation of genetic mutations. Markers of CRC may serve to provide the basis for decision-making, and may assist in cancer prevention, detection and prognostic prediction. DNA and messenger (m)RNA molecules that are present in human feces faithfully represent CRC manifestations. In the present study, exogenous mouse c...

PURPOSE A significant reduction in colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality is attributed to CRC screening and surveillance. However, there is no national consensus on CRC screening and surveillance in Thailand. The aim of this study was to assess current practice in CRC screening and surveillance among Thai general surgeons. METHODS Between July and November 2008, a questionnaire was randomly sent ...

BACKGROUND Limited data are available on the association between colorectal cancer (CRC) worry and CRC screening uptake, particularly in rural and underserved populations where there is an excess burden of CRC. METHODS Between September 2009 and March 2010, we conducted a cross-sectional study among a randomly selected sample of Appalachian Ohio residents aged 51-75 years (n= 1084). We also r...

Mucin overexpression has been implicated in the tumorigenesis and progression of colorectal carcinoma (CRC). However, data obtained on the prognostic importance of mucin expression in CRC is inconsistent. Due to lack of data on mucin expression and the increase in CRC incidence in Saudi Arabia, the aim of the present study was to analyze the mucin expression profile in patients with CRC in this...