Determination of factors responsible for the declining incidence of colorectal cancer
- 1 June 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
- Vol. 42 (6) , 741-752
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02236929
Abstract
INTRODUCTION:After rising for 13 years in the United States, the incidence of colorectal cancer began to fall in 1986 and has continued to drop since then. This report contains an analysis of the pattern of declining colorectal cancer risk by colorectal subsite, race, and gender and a time tKeywords
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