Colonoscopy: Colorectal cancer screening is a 'package'

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 130-131

  Winawer, Sidney J ^a  

^a Sloang Kettering Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 84858073295     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2012.20     Document Type: Short Survey

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