The use of symptoms to predict colorectal cancer site. Can we reduce the pressure on our endoscopy services?

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 114-118

  Kent, A J ^a   Woolf, D ^b   McCue, J ^b   Greenfield, S M ^b  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH II HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Colorectal cancer; Diagnostic tests; Endoscopy; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PAIN; CANCER STAGING; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION HABIT; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RISK FACTOR; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SYMPTOM; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANEMIA; COLON, ASCENDING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 77954376593     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2009.01770.x     Document Type: Article

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