Colorectal cancer screening and surveillance in the elderly patient

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1197-1206

  Day, Lukejohn W ^a,b   Walter, Louise C ^c   Velayos, Fernando ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; BLOATING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COLON PERFORATION; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; DIZZINESS; FATIGUE; FECES INCONTINENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPERPHOSPHATEMIA; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTENSION; INSOMNIA; INTESTINE PREPARATION; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; KIDNEY INJURY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NAUSEA; PANCREATITIS; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; VOMITING;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PREVALENCE;

EID: 79960052322     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2011.128     Document Type: Review

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