The IARC perspective on colorectal cancer screening

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 378, Issue 18, 2018, Pages 1734-1740

  Lauby‑Secretan, Béatrice ^b   Vilahur, Nadia ^b   Bianchini, Franca ^a   Guha, Neela ^b   Straif, Kurt ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DAIRY PRODUCT; DIETARY FIBER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FAMILY HISTORY; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCOME GROUP; OBESITY; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; MASS SCREENING; MORTALITY; OCCULT BLOOD; PROCEDURES;

COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; OCCULT BLOOD; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85046638928     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsr1714643     Document Type: Article

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