Editorial: Risk scoring for colon cancer screening: Validated, but still not ready for prime time

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1107-1109

  Lin, Otto S ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79958010194     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2011.25     Document Type: Review

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