Strategies for reducing colorectal cancer among blacks

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 182-184

  Gupta, Samir ^a,b,c,d   Shah, Jessica ^c,d   Balasubramanian, Bijal A ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d PARKLAND HEALTH AND HOSPITAL SYSTEM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; CAUCASIAN; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; ETHNIC GROUP; GROUPS BY AGE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; NEGRO; NOTE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEER PROGRAM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862958762     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.594     Document Type: Note

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