Carcinoembryonic antigen screening: How far should we go?

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 862-865

  Lim, Y K ^a   Kam, M H ^a   Eu, Kong Weng ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Carcinoembryonic antigen; Colorectal cancer; Tumour marker

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; METASTASIS; OVARY TERATOMA; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIMARY TUMOR; SCREENING TEST; STOMACH CANCER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70350509564     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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