Colorectal cancer screening
By: Joseph C. Anderson, Charles J. Kahi, editors
Series: Clinical gastroenterology; Clinical gastroenterology
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781607613978; 9781607613985
Subjects: Colorectal Neoplasms; Methods; Cancer; Mass Screening; Colon (Anatomy); Diagnosis; Colonoscopy; Computed Tomographic Colonography; Rectum
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Colorectal cancer pathways / Petr Protiva; title: Risk factors and screening for colorectal cancer / Joseph C. Anderson; title: Hereditary adenomatous colorectal cancer syndromes / Maqsood Khan and Carol A Burke; title: Screening and surveillance guidelines / Robert J. Chehade and Douglas J. Robertson; title: Barriers to colorectal cancer screening : patient, physician, and system factors / Catherine R. Messina; title: Screening for colorectal cancer using colonoscopy / Douglas K. Rex; title: New colonoscopic technologies for colorectal cancer screening / Douglas K. Rex; title: Screening for CRC using CT colonography / Brooks D. Cash; title: Noninvasive screening tests / Nabil Fayad and Thomas F. Imperiale; title: Removal of difficult colon polyps / Jerome Waye; title: Screening for colorectal cancer in the elderly / Charles J. Kahi; title: Chemoprevention / Jeffrey Singerman and Petr Protiva.