Personalisation of colorectal cancer screening

The Lancet Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 673-675

  Gellad, Ziad ^a,b  

^a DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADENOMA; COLONIC POLYPS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 84879783277     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: 14745488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(13)70252-3     Document Type: Letter

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