Should colorectal cancer screening start at the same age in European countries? Contributions from descriptive epidemiology

We assessed incidence and mortality of colorectal cancer (CRC) at various ages among women and men in 38 European countries. The ages at which defined levels of incidence and mortality were reached varied between 9 and 17 years between countries. This variation requires consideration in the definiti...

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Autores principales: Brenner, H, Hoffmeister, M, Haug, U
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2008
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2527806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18628760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604488
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spelling pubmed-25278062009-09-11 Should colorectal cancer screening start at the same age in European countries? Contributions from descriptive epidemiology Brenner, H Hoffmeister, M Haug, U Br J Cancer Short Communication We assessed incidence and mortality of colorectal cancer (CRC) at various ages among women and men in 38 European countries. The ages at which defined levels of incidence and mortality were reached varied between 9 and 17 years between countries. This variation requires consideration in the definition of screening guidelines. Nature Publishing Group 2008-08-05 2008-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2527806/ /pubmed/18628760 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604488 Text en Copyright © 2008 Cancer Research UK https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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title_fullStr Should colorectal cancer screening start at the same age in European countries? Contributions from descriptive epidemiology
title_full_unstemmed Should colorectal cancer screening start at the same age in European countries? Contributions from descriptive epidemiology
title_short Should colorectal cancer screening start at the same age in European countries? Contributions from descriptive epidemiology
title_sort should colorectal cancer screening start at the same age in european countries? contributions from descriptive epidemiology
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2527806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18628760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604488
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