Impact of the United Kingdom national bowel cancer awareness campaign on colorectal services

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 70-75

  Pande, R ^a   Leung, E ^a   McCullough, P ^a   Smith, S ^a   Harmston, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Awareness; Bowel cancer; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEFECATION HABIT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTESTINE CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SECONDARY HEALTH CARE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84893472905     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.dcr.0000437689.19579.97     Document Type: Article

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