Colorectal cancer and its delayed diagnosis: Have we improved in the past 25 years?

Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas

Volumn 103, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 458-463

  Cerdán Santacruz, Carlos ^a   Cano Valderrama, Óscar ^a   Cárdenas Crespo, Sofía ^a   Torres García, Antonio José ^a   Cerdán Miguel, Javier ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Diagnostic delay; Prognosis; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL PATIENT; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 80054689395     PISSN: 11300108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4321/S1130-01082011000900004     Document Type: Article

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