Family history as a marker of risk for colorectal cancer: Austrian experience

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 205-209

  Karner Hanusch, Judith ^a   Mittlböck, Martina ^a   Fillipitsch, Thomas ^b   Herbst, Friedrich ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b District Hospital   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH CANCER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 1842339363     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689900217     Document Type: Article

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