Colon cancer screening, lifestyle, and risk of colon cancer

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 555-563

  Slattery, Martha L ^a   Edwards, Sandra L ^a   Ni Ma, Khe ^a   Friedman, Gary D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Colonoscopy; Diet; Family history of cancer; FOB test; Sigmoidoscopy

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLON CANCER; DESCENDING COLON; DIETARY FIBER; EDUCATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; VEGETABLE;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CALIFORNIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIET; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIFE STYLE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UTAH;

EID: 0034086289     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008924115604     Document Type: Article

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