Screening for Colorectal Cancer
- 3 January 2002
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 346 (1), 40-44
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmcp010886
Abstract
A healthy 50-year-old woman with no risk factors for colorectal cancer other than age comes in for an annual examination. Which screening test for colorectal cancer should be recommended?Keywords
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