Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer: Earlier Diagnoses or Increasing Disease Burden?

Gastroenterology

Volumn 152, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1809-1812.e3

  Murphy, Caitlin C ^a   Lund, Jennifer L ^b   Sandler, Robert S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIETARY INTAKE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EDITORIAL; FAMILY HISTORY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; INTESTINE POLYP; MORTALITY RATE; OBESITY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CANCER REGISTRY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE OF ONSET; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SEER PROGRAM; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85020079823     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: 15280012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2017.04.030     Document Type: Editorial

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