Screening for colorectal cancer
Open Access
- 1 December 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Medical Bulletin
- Vol. 64 (1) , 75-80
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bmb/64.1.75
Abstract
Screening for colorectal cancer is feasible and there is increasingly compelling evidence to show that such programmes can save lives at a cost similar to that of the existing breast cancer screening programme.Keywords
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