Optimising the expansion of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 201, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 456-461

  Cenin, Dayna R ^a   St John, D James B ^b,c   Ledger, Melissa J N ^a   Slevin, Terry ^a   Lansdorp Vogelaar, Iris ^d,e  

^a Cancer Council Western Australia   (Australia)

^b CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MICROSIMULATION SCREENING ANALYSIS; NATIONAL BOWEL CANCER SCREENING PROGRAM; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; AGED; AUSTRALIA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS;

AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; QUEENSLAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84919390195     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja13.00112     Document Type: Article

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