Colorectal cancer: Are the "young" being overlooked?

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 205, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 312-316

  Taggarshe, Deepa ^a   Rehil, Neelima ^a   Sharma, Sonia ^a   Flynn, Jeffrey C ^a   Damadi, Amir ^a  

^a PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Colorectal cancer; Young patients

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELENA; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84874048160     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2012.10.016     Document Type: Article

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