Colorectal-cancer screening - Coming of age

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 369, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1164-1166

  Levin, Theodore R ^a,b   Corley, Douglas A ^a  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; GUAIAC;

AGE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CPG ISLAND; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; FECAL IMMUNOCHEMICAL TEST; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 84884170105     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1308253     Document Type: Editorial

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