Screening for colorectal cancer in individuals at average risk: Current methods and emerging issues

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 10-11

  Lieberman, David ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; GENETIC SCREENING; HEMOGLOBIN ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FECES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; OCCULT BLOOD;

EID: 84892378419     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.11499     Document Type: Note

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