Lowering the Starting Age for Colorectal Cancer Screening to 45 Years: Who Will Come…and Should They?

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2018, Pages 1541-1544

  Imperiale, Thomas F ^a   Kahi, Charles J ^a   Rex, Douglas K ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 85053476246     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: 15427714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2018.08.023     Document Type: Editorial

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