How does colonoscopy compare with fecal occult blood testing as a screening tool for colon cancer?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 996-997

  Boggs, Bruce D ^a   Stephens, Mary M ^a   Wallace, Rick ^a  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OCCULT BLOOD; REVIEW; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON TUMOR; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; MASS SCREENING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; OCCULT BLOOD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 27744597881     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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