Is it time to reassess colon cancer screening recommendations and acknowledge ethnic disparities?

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 859-861

  Ginsburg, Carla H ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 80053151667     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2011.05.029     Document Type: Article

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