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Evaluation of Colorectal Cancer Risk and Prevalence by Stool DNA Integrity Detection
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Stool DNA and colorectal-cancer screening
Douglas J Robertson1, Jason A Dominitz
1From the White River Junction Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, White River Junction, VT, and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH (D.J.R.); and the VA Puget Sound Health Care System, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle (J.A.D.).
The New England Journal of Medicine
|March 21, 2014
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