Colorectal cancer screening: Why immunochemical faecal occult blood test performs as well with either one or two samples

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 694-699

  Guittet, Lydia ^a,b,c   Bouvier, Véronique ^a,b,d   Guillaume, Elodie ^a,c   Levillain, Romuald ^e   Ruiz, Angela ^e   Lantieri, Olivier ^e   Launoy, Guy ^a,b,c  

^a Axe 2: 'Biology and Innovative Therapeutics for Locally Aggressive Cancers'   (France)

^b CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^d Association Mathilde   (France)

^e Institut Inter Régional Pour la Santé IRSA   (France)

Author keywords

Colorectal neoplasm; Mass screening; Occult blood

Indexed keywords

GUAIAC;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMOCCULT II TEST; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGSTREAM TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADENOMA; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; GUAIAC; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84863783785     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: 18783562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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