Cancer screening in older persons: A new age of wonder

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1565-1567

  Gross, Cary P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; NOTE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; POLYPECTOMY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; NEOPLASMS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84907969605     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: 21686114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.3901     Document Type: Note

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