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What is the difference between intestinal cancer and colon cancer?
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Specific site: Intestinal cancer can mean any type of cancer affecting any portion of the intestines (from the small intestine to the large intestine). Colon cancer affects the large intestine only.
Answered 1/14/2014
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Most common: Intestinal cancer is colon cancer or adenocarcinoma of the large intestine. Cancer of the small intestine is quite a bit less common and can be of various tissue types.
Answered 11/30/2020
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