Cancer Prevention in Primary Care Screening for colorectal cancer
- 6 August 1994
- Vol. 309 (6951) , 382-6
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.309.6951.382
Abstract
In the United Kingdom in 1988 there were almost 31 000 new cases of large bowel cancer, 19 336 in the colon and 11 636 in the rectum. Figure 1 shows the general distribution of cancers of the large bowel. Tumours in the sigmoid colon, rectosigmoid junction, and the rectum account for nearly 70% of all cases.Keywords
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