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The effect of using fecal testing after a negative sigmoidoscopy on the risk of death from colorectal cancer

OBJECTIVE: To examine whether receiving a fecal occult blood test after a negative sigmoidoscopy reduced mortality from colorectal cancer. METHODS: We used a nested case–control design with incidence-density matching in historical cohorts of 1,877,740 50–90-year-old persons during 2006–2012, in an i...

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Autores principales: Doubeni, Chyke A, Corley, Douglas A, Jensen, Christopher D, Schottinger, Joanne E, Lee, Jeffery K, Ghai, Nirupa R, Levin, Theodore R, Zhao, Wei K, Saia, Chelsea A, Wainwright, Jocelyn V, Mehta, Shivan J, Selby, Kevin, Doria-Rose, V. Paul, Zauber, Ann G, Fletcher, Robert H, Weiss, Noel S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7679284/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32438892
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969141320921427