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- Title
Autoimmune disease and subsequent digestive tract cancer by histology.
- Authors
Hemminki, K; Liu, X; Ji, J; Sundquist, J; Sundquist, K
- Abstract
Dysregulation of the immune function in autoimmune diseases could potentially lead to cancer development and there is definite evidence linking some autoimmune mechanisms with cancer. We analyzed systematically the occurrence of histology-specific digestive tract cancers in patients diagnosed with 33 different autoimmune diseases in order to address the question of shared susceptibility.
- Publication
Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology, 2012, Vol 23, Issue 4, p927
- ISSN
1569-8041
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/annonc/mdr333