Making sense of differing bowel cancer screening guidelines

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 190, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 348-349

  Ee, Hooi C ^a   Olynyk, John K ^b,c,d  

^a SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b FREMANTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MORBIDITY; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SYMPTOM;

EID: 65249142669     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02444.x     Document Type: Editorial

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