The importance of choosing colorectal cancer screening tests

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 582-583

  Levin, Theodore R ^a  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ADVANCED CANCER; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASIAN; CANCER SCREENING; CHINESE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOMOPHOBIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; NOTE; OCCULT BLOOD; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; OCCULT BLOOD; PATIENT COMPLIANCE;

EID: 84859707140     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.349     Document Type: Note

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