The Increasing Incidence of Colorectal Cancers Diagnosed in Subjects Under Age 50 Among Races: CRaCking the Conundrum

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2767-2769

  Carethers, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CAUCASIAN; COLORECTAL CANCER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE MUTATION; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; ANCESTRY GROUP; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; INCIDENCE;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE;

EID: 84982791119     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: 15732568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-016-4268-1     Document Type: Editorial

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