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Effect of Flexible Sigmoidoscopy-Based Screening on Incidence and Mortality of Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

BACKGROUND: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have yielded varying estimates of the benefit of flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS) screening for colorectal cancer (CRC). Our objective was to more precisely estimate the effect of FS-based screening on the incidence and mortality of CRC by performing a meta...

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Autores principales: Elmunzer, B. Joseph, Hayward, Rodney A., Schoenfeld, Philip S., Saini, Sameer D., Deshpande, Amar, Waljee, Akbar K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3514315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23226108
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001352