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New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 371, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 187-188

  Imperiale, Thomas F ^a   Ransohoff, David F ^b   Itzkowitz, Steven H ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; DNA;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA SCREENING; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FECAL IMMUNOCHEMICAL TEST; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MULTITARGET STOOL DNA TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CHEMISTRY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRECANCER;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS;

EID: 84903897493     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1405215     Document Type: Letter

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