The priority is screening, not colonoscopy

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2117-2118

  Woolf, Steven H ^a   Jones, Resa M ^b   Rothemich, Stephen F ^a   Krist, Alex ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; LETTER; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE;

COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 72249094416     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.177584     Document Type: Letter

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