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Judith M E Walsh1, Jonathan P Terdiman

  • 1Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Women's Health Clinical Research Center, University of California San Francisco, Campus Box 1793, 1635 Divisadero Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA. Jwalsh@medicine.ucsf.edu

JAMA
|March 14, 2003
PubMed
まとめ

結腸直腸がんのスクリーニングは,50歳以上の成人の死亡率を大幅に低下させます. 利用可能な検査にもかかわらず,患者と医師の障壁のためにスクリーニング率は低い. 遵守を改善するための戦略が議論されます.

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