Screening for colorectal cancer in average-risk Chinese population using a mixed strategy with sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 630-640

  Liou, Jyh Ming ^a   Lin, Jaw Town ^a   Huang, Shih Pei ^a   Chiu, Han Mo ^a   Wang, Hsiu Po ^a   Lee, Yi Chia ^a   Lin, Jou Wei ^a   Shun, Chia Tung ^a   Liang, Jin Tung ^a   Wu, Ming Shiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Age; Chinese; Colonoscopy; Colorectal cancer; Sigmoidoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CHINESE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; SEX RATIO; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

AGED; CHINA; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 34249883029     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-006-0857-y     Document Type: Article

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