Colorectal cancer: Screening - One small step for mankind, one giant leap for man

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 5-6

  Kuipers, Ernst J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CPG ISLAND; EXERCISE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SHORT SURVEY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UNITED STATES; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; MALE; MASS SCREENING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROCEDURES;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PRIMARY PREVENTION;

EID: 84891002467     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2013.213     Document Type: Short Survey

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