摘要: There is sufficiently detailed understanding about how an automobile works such that starting or running the engine can be selectively disabled. Applying this analogy to colorectal cancer, question researchers and clinicians ask is: cancer prevented from starting? Once started, disease running? These two aims fall broadly into categories of prevention treatment respectively. Many aspects provide focal points for clinical management patients are included in Figure 1 (below). This volume provides insights incidence presentation, some advances developments diagnosis patient management, examines therapeutic targets regimes. chapter a general overview affect explores disease, as well preventive screening programs.