Takayuki Ogino, Tsunekazu Mizushima, Makoto Fujii, Yuki Sekido, Hidetoshi Eguchi, Riichiro Nezu, Hiroki Ikeuchi, Uchino Motoi, Kitaro Futami, Kinya Okamoto, Hisashi Nagahara, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Koji Okabayashi, Kazutaka Yamada, Hiroki Ohge, Shinji Tanaka, Yusuke Mizuuchi, Yoshiki Ohkita, Yu Sato, Hideki Ueno, Toru Kono, Michio Itabashi, Hideaki Kimura, Koya Hida, Yusuke Kinugasa, Kenichi Takahashi, Fumikazu Koyama, Tsunekazu Hanai, Kiyoshi Maeda, Toshihiro Noake, Yoshifumi Shimada, Takayuki Yamamoto, Junya Arakaki, Keiji Mastuda, Junji Okuda, Eiji Sunami, Yoshito Akagi, Kenji Kastumata, Kay Uehara, Takeshi Yamada, Shin Sasaki, Soichiro Ishihara, Yoichi Ajioka, Kenichi Sugihara
INTRODUCTION: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the major life-threatening complications in patients with Crohn's disease (CD). Previous studies of CD-associated CRC (CD-CRC) have involved only small numbers of patients, and no large series have been reported from Asia. The aim of this study was to clarify the prognosis and clinicopathological features of CD-CRC compared with sporadic CRC. METHODS: A large nationwide database was used to identify patients with CD-CRC (n = 233) and sporadic CRC (n = 129,783) over a 40-year period, from 1980 to 2020...
September 1, 2023: American Journal of Gastroenterology