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We report the clinical case of a patient who showed an “accelerated” form of polyposis, with development of major lesions within the first decade of life. The patient belongs to a familial adenomatous polyposis family—already described in 2001—featured by profuse polyposis at an early age of onset and desmoid tumors in the majority of affected individuals (of both sexes). The family was characterized...
The development of colorectal cancer has been viewed as an ordered process in which three main phases can be identified: initiation, promotion and progression. There is definite proof that stable alterations of the structure or sequence of DNA (mutations) represent the initiating event; these are followed by an uncontrolled expansion of the neoplastic clones which characterizes tumoural growth. Several...
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