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Cynthia L. Sears, MD, on Colon Cancer: Keynote Lecture

2017 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium

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Cynthia L. Sears, MD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, summarizes her keynote talk on microbes, microbiota, and colon cancer. Next-generation sequencing combined with biologic studies suggests that most colorectal cancer cases have specific microbiome associations.



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