Mass screening for gastric cancer: How to select patients for endoscopic examination

Gastric Cancer

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 78-83

  Nakashima, Hirotaka ^a   Nagahama, Ryuji ^a   Yamamoto, Terushige ^a   Ohkura, Yasuo ^b  

^a Foundation for Detection of Early Gastric Carcinoma   (Japan)

^b KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Gastric cancer; Gastroendoscopy; Photofl uorography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH CARCINOMA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; STOMACH TUMOR;

ADULT; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78049238223     PISSN: 14363291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10120-009-0538-3     Document Type: Article

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