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- Title
Colorectal cancer screening: you can't be positive about a negative result.
- Authors
Hoey, John; Wooltorton, Eric
- Abstract
Reports on a study on the effectiveness of colorectal cancer screening, which recruited patients from 13 Veterans Affairs medical centers in the United States. Discussion of the use of fecal occult-blood testing and sigmoidoscopy; Caveats offered by the authors concerning the results; Implications for medical practice.
- Subjects
UNITED States; COLON cancer diagnosis; MEDICAL screening; FECAL occult blood tests; SIGMOIDOSCOPY
- Publication
Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), 2001, Vol 165, Issue 9, p1248
- ISSN
0820-3946
- Publication type
Article