Flexible sigmoidoscopy is the best approach for a national bowel screening programme

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 129, Issue 1430, 2016, Pages 14-17

  Cox, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; COLONOSCOPY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTESTINE CANCER; NEW ZEALAND; PROGRAM COST EFFECTIVENESS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SIGMOIDOSCOPY; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROCEDURES;

AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 84977438601     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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