Familial colorectal cancer screening: So close, so far

Gastroenterology

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 492-494

  Castells, Antoni ^a   Giardiello, Francis M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPLASIA; ENTERITIS; FAMILY HISTORY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HEREDITARY COLORECTAL CANCER; HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS COLORECTAL CANCER; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDICAL HISTORY; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIBLING; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 84874049924     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: 15280012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2013.01.028     Document Type: Editorial

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