Colorectal cancer screening: Are stool and blood based tests good enough?

Chinese Clinical Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wu, Chung Wa ^a   Sung, Joseph Jao Yiu ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Colorectal cancer; Screening; Stool

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PROTEIN;

BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FECES; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; OCCULT BLOOD; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW;

EID: 84919396095     PISSN: 23043865     EISSN: 23043873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2304-3865.2012.11.07     Document Type: Review

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