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Screening for Colorectal Cancer
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2003A 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?
Robert S. Rosson +3 more
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Screening of colorectal cancer
Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 1986Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains a cancer in a disappointing location. However, its location clearly has an advantage that could theoretically permit efficient secondary prevention: the preceding of the cancer by a benign lesion, ie, the adenoma. Complete colonoscopy and its substitute, the double-contrast barium enema, and their specific limitations ...
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SCREENING FOR COLORECTAL CANCER
The Lancet, 1986The large bowel is world-wide the fourth commonest site for cancer after lung, stomach and breast and the fourth cause of cancer death after lung, stomach and liver cancer. There were 943,000 new cases diagnosed and 510,000 large bowel cancer deaths in 2000 (Parkin et al. 2001).
J. M. A. Northover, Joel Kettner
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Screening of Colorectal Cancer
Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, 2005Cost-effectiveness analyses have shown that the cost per year of life saved by screening with any of the tests recommended is reasonable by US standards. Although the specific results vary among analyses, in general the marginal cost-effectiveness of this screening is less than $25,000 per year of life saved.
Sidney J. Winawer, Sidney J. Winawer
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Screening for Colorectal Cancer
New England Journal of Medicine, 1991GOLORECTAL cancer is a leading cause of death from cancer in the United States, with approximately 140,000 new cases and 60,000 deaths per year.1 A 50-year-old person has about a 5 percent risk of having colorectal cancer by the age of 80 and a 2.5 percent risk of dying from it.2 To reduce the morbidity and mortality due to colorectal cancer, some ...
Jane F. Desforges +2 more
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Screening for colorectal cancer
Techniques in Coloproctology, 2004A review of the literature regarding the screening strategies for colorectal cancer (CRC), particularly for average risk individuals, is analysed. The advantages and disadvantages or limitations of screening modalities for CRC, such as faecal occult blood testing (FOBT) with guaiac-based tests or the new faecal deoxyribonucleic acid tests, endoscopic ...
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Current Opinion in Oncology, 1998
Comprehensive evidence-based guidelines for screening and surveillance for colorectal cancer were published in 1997. Backed by compelling scientific data from recently completed controlled trials and case-control studies, these guidelines recommend annual fecal occult blood test screening plus periodic flexible sigmoidoscopy about every 5 years for ...
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Comprehensive evidence-based guidelines for screening and surveillance for colorectal cancer were published in 1997. Backed by compelling scientific data from recently completed controlled trials and case-control studies, these guidelines recommend annual fecal occult blood test screening plus periodic flexible sigmoidoscopy about every 5 years for ...
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Screening for Colorectal Cancer
Southern Medical Journal, 1979A voluntary colorectal screening program was carried out in North Carolina to evaluate the public's willingness to perform a do-it-yourself bowel test, to educate the public on the importance of routine colorectal screening, and to assess the efficacy of a small-scale screening program in detecting colorectal cancer.
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Medical Clinics of North America, 1996
The decision whether to launch a screening program in asymptomatic patients of average risk for colorectal cancer and the selection of the appropriate protocol for screening are complex issues. There are still many unanswered questions. Many organizations such as the American Cancer Society, the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for the ...
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The decision whether to launch a screening program in asymptomatic patients of average risk for colorectal cancer and the selection of the appropriate protocol for screening are complex issues. There are still many unanswered questions. Many organizations such as the American Cancer Society, the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for the ...
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