Prevention of Colorectal Cancer by Colonoscopic Polypectomy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 329, Issue 27, 1993, Pages 1977-1981

  Winawer, Sidney J ^a   Zauber, Ann G ^a   ho, May Nah ^a   O'brien, Michael J ^b   Gottlieb, Leonard S ^b   Sternberg, Stephen S ^a   Waye, Jerome D ^c   Schapiro, Melvin ^d   Bond, John H ^e   Panish, Joel F ^f   Ackroyd, Frederick ^g   Shike, Moshe ^a   Kurtz, Robert C ^a   Hornsby Lewis, Lynn ^a   Gerdes, Hans ^a   Stewart, Edward T ^h  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Valley Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^e VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h John L Doyne Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMATOUS POLYPS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0027731797     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199312303292701     Document Type: Article

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