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Use of the Analysis of the Volatile Faecal Metabolome in Screening for Colorectal Cancer

Diagnosis of colorectal cancer is an invasive and expensive colonoscopy, which is usually carried out after a positive screening test. Unfortunately, existing screening tests lack specificity and sensitivity, hence many unnecessary colonoscopies are performed. Here we report on a potential new scree...

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Autores principales: Batty, Claire A, Cauchi, Michael, Lourenço, Célia, Hunter, John O, Turner, Claire
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4472922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26086914
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0130301