The urgency of saving lives through bowel cancer screening

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 196, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Olver, Ian N ^a   Young, Graeme P ^b  

^a CANCER COUNCIL AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; AGE; AGED; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OCCULT BLOOD; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD;

EID: 84861606711     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja12.10476     Document Type: Editorial

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