Is earlier referral and investigation of bowel cancer patients presenting with rectal bleeding associated with better survival?

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1242-1248

  Thompson, M R ^a   Asiimwe, A ^a   Flashman, K ^a   Tsavellas, G ^b  

^a PORTSMOUTH HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b KENT AND CANTERBURY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Rectal bleeding

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; DEFECATION HABIT; EARLY CANCER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SYMPTOM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; DEFECATION; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80054012625     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2010.02438.x     Document Type: Article

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