Screening for colorectal cancer: Virtually there

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 52-53

  Macrae, Finlay A ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; OCCULT BLOOD; POLYPECTOMY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 12444320407     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb06573.x     Document Type: Editorial

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