Is screening for anal cancer warranted in homosexual men?

Sexual Health

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 137-140

  Anderson, Jonathan StC ^a   Vajdic, Claire ^a   Grulich, Andrew E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANUS TUMOR; AUSTRALIA; CARCINOMA IN SITU; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PAPILLOMA VIRUS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; REVIEW; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANUS NEOPLASMS; AUSTRALIA; CARCINOMA IN SITU; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644680325     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH03019     Document Type: Review

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