Colorectal cancer screening on stronger footing

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 359, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1285-1287

  Fletcher, Robert H ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; COLON POLYP; COLORECTAL TUMOR; FOLLOW UP; NOTE; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; RISK;

EID: 52249114950     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe0806029     Document Type: Editorial

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