| Literature DB >> 16009675 |
Abstract
Radiation induced bowel damage affects 6000 individuals annually in the UK, with a negative impact on quality of life. Our understanding of how to treat these patients is dismally lacking an evidence base. Fibrosis seems to be the unifying underlying cause for most symptoms. Progress in understanding the development and treatment of fibrosis in these patients might have important consequences for patients with other causes of fibrosis in the gastrointestinal tract.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16009675 PMCID: PMC1774900 DOI: 10.1136/gut.2004.062596
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Gut ISSN: 0017-5749 Impact factor: 23.059