The effectiveness of colonoscopy in reducing mortality from colorectal cancer

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 150, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 819-

  Romagnuolo, Joseph ^a   Barkun, Alan N ^b   Manges, Amee R ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPE; COLORECTAL CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; HUMAN; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; THERAPY EFFECT; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NOTE; STANDARD;

COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 66649103725     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-150-11-200906020-00018     Document Type: Letter

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