The Knowledge of Colorectal Cancer Symptoms and Risk Factors among 10,078 Screening Participants: Are High Risk Individuals More Knowledgeable?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Wong, Martin C S ^a   Hirai, Hoyee W ^a   Luk, Arthur K C ^a   Lam, Thomas Y T ^a   Ching, Jessica Y L ^a   Griffiths, Sian M ^a   Chan, Francis K L ^a   Sung, Joseph J Y ^a  

^a and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENDER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MALE; SMOKING;

EID: 84875725970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060366     Document Type: Article

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