Screening for colorectal cancer
- 1 October 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
- Vol. 43 (10) , S78-S84
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02237230
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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