Colorectal-Cancer Incidence and Mortality with Screening Flexible Sigmoidoscopy

BACKGROUND: The benefits of endoscopic testing for colorectal-cancer screening are uncertain. We evaluated the effect of screening with flexible sigmoidoscopy on colorectal-cancer incidence and mortality. METHODS: From 1993 through 2001, we randomly assigned 154,900 men and women 55 to 74 years of a...

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Main Authors: Schoen, Robert E., Pinsky, Paul F., Weissfeld, Joel L., Yokochi, Lance A., Church, Timothy, Laiyemo, Adeyinka O., Bresalier, Robert, Andriole, Gerald L., Buys, Saundra S., Crawford, E. David, Fouad, Mona N., Isaacs, Claudine, Johnson, Christine C., Reding, Douglas J., O'Brien, Barbara, Carrick, Danielle M., Wright, Patrick, Riley, Thomas L., Purdue, Mark P., Izmirlian, Grant, Kramer, Barnett S., Miller, Anthony B., Gohagan, John K., Prorok, Philip C., Berg, Christine D.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3641846/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22612596
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1114635
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