Initial impact of Australia's National Bowel Cancer Screening Program

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 191, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 378-381

  Ananda, Sumitra S ^a,b   McLaughlin, Stephen J ^c   Chen, Frank ^d   Hayes, Ian P ^a   Hunter, Andrew A ^e   Skinner, Iain J ^c   Steel, Malcolm C A ^d   Jones, Ian T ^a   Hastie, Ian A ^a   Rieger, Nicholas A ^e,f   Shedda, Susan ^a   Compston, Daniel J ^b   Gibbs, Peter ^a,b  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b BioGrid Australia   (Australia)

^c WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d Department of Cardiology   (Australia)

^e ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OCCULT BLOOD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 73049097780     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02843.x     Document Type: Article

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