Is bowel cancer screening important for Māori?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 123, Issue 1320, 2010, Pages

  Sarfati, Diana ^a   Hill, Sarah ^b   Blakely, Tony ^a   Robson, Bridget ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTESTINE CANCER; MAORI; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEW ZEALAND; ABORIGINE; ADENOMA; COLORECTAL TUMOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NOTE; OCCULT BLOOD; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADENOMA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEW ZEALAND; OCCULT BLOOD; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77956006545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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