Screening for Colorectal Cancer by Nurse Endoscopists
Open Access
- 20 January 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 330 (3) , 183-187
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199401203300307
Abstract
Case-control studies have demonstrated that screening by sigmoidoscopy is effective in reducing mortality from colorectal cancer. If nurses performed screening examinations, more patients could be screened and, at current income levels, at a lower cost.Keywords
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