Patient Delay in Colorectal Cancer Patients: Associations with Rectal Bleeding and Thoughts about Cancer

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Pedersen, Anette F ^a   Hansen, Rikke P ^a   Vedsted, Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION HABIT; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DENMARK; DIZZINESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; MARRIAGE; NAUSEA; PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84880664788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069700     Document Type: Article

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