Anal cancer prevention: how we are failing men who have sex with men

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 417-419

  Cranston, Ross D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAL CANAL; ANAL DYSPLASIA; ANUS; ANUS CANCER; ANUS INTERCOURSE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPLASIA; EDITORIAL; ETHNICITY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MEDICAL SERVICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL HEALTH; UTERINE CERVIX DYSPLASIA; UTERINE CERVIX EPITHELIUM; VIRUS INFECTION; WART VIRUS;

ANUS NEOPLASMS; CONDYLOMATA ACUMINATA; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 57149090327     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2008.032508     Document Type: Editorial

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