"it's a small price to pay for life": Faecal occult blood test (FOBT) screening for colorectal cancer, perceived barriers and facilitators

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 1331, 2011, Pages

  Reeder, Anthony I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; OCCULT BLOOD; PROGNOSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NEW ZEALAND; OCCULT BLOOD; PROGNOSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 79953656982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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