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Clin Colon Rectal Surg 2018; 31(05): 267-277
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1660482
Review Article
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Small Bowel Adenocarcinoma

Emerson Y. Chen
1   Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon
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Gina M. Vaccaro
1   Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon
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04 September 2018 (online)

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Abstract

Small bowel adenocarcinoma is a clinically and anatomically distinct gastrointestinal cancer that lacks prospective data to support its optimal management. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease and inherited conditions that cause gastrointestinal polyps are at especially high risk. Due to a lack of effective surveillance programs resulting in missed or delayed diagnoses only when symptoms develop, this disease is generally discovered at an advanced stage. Surgical resection is the only treatment modality with a chance of cure. Currently accepted treatment considerations are often generalized from large bowel and pancreatic–biliary cancers, due to some anatomic and clinical parallels. Additional research, however, is desperately needed to characterize the unique molecular differences of this disease to better prognosticate patients and establish rational clinical trials that would improve their outcomes.

Keywords

small bowel adenocarcinoma - small intestinal adenocarcinoma - small intestinal cancer - small bowel malignancies - small bowel cancer