Why you should care about screening flexible sigmoidoscopy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 366, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 2421-2422

  Inadomi, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; EDITORIAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 84862540919     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1204099     Document Type: Editorial

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