Likely effect of adding flexible sigmoidoscopy to the English NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme: Impact on colorectal cancer cases and deaths

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 142-149

  Geurts, S M E ^a,b   Massat, N J ^a   Duffy, S W ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; England; flexible sigmoidoscopy; guaiac faecal occult blood test; mass screening; simulation study

Indexed keywords

GUAIAC;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENGLISHMAN; FEMALE; FLEXIBLE SIGMOIDOSCOPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; MASS SCREENING; PROCEDURES; UTILIZATION;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ENGLAND; GREAT BRITAIN; MASS SCREENING; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 84934435660     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2015.76     Document Type: Article

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