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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Drugs against cancer : stories of discovery and the quest for a cure 
    Publication: Bethesda, Maryland : National Cancer Institute, [2022]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918505188606676
    ... Shown here are the stages from normal to cancerous polyps as conceived by Vogelstein. In the normal colonic ... cancer where family members developed hundreds of pre-cancerous polyps in the colon. The gene responsible for this ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - The American illustrated medical dictionary : a new and complete dictionary of the terms used ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia ; London : W. B. Saunders Company, 1924
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/26420040R
    ... acid, C19H36- (OH)(COOH)s.i5H2O, from the fungus Polyp'orus officinalis, or white agaric. It is a ... like white agaric, purging a., white a., the Polyp'- orus officina'lis, a spongy mass growing on ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Healthy People: The Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention 
    Publication: United States Public Health Service, 1979
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584932X92
    ... is the predisposition of those with multiple intestinal polyps to cancer of the colon. Cancers at Specific ... including use of instrument examination (sigmoidos- copy or colonoscopy) when indicated, to detect early disease amenable to ...