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Gastrointestinal Malignancies: Oesophageal, Gastric, Colorectal, Pancreatic and Liver Cancers

Review of the anatomic sites of gastrointestinal cancer - oesophagus, stomach, colon and rectum, pancreas and liver - with the distribution of squamous cell carcinoma along the oesophagus and the tobacco and alcohol risks that multiply it. Continues through gastric cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma, the serum markers, imaging and liver biopsy used to diagnose them, and the cases in which extra hepatic extension, localized disease or main portal vein thrombosis rule surgery out.

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