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Mass screening for colorectal cancer by testing fecal occult blood

✍ Scribed by Masahide Fujita; Yosuke Nakano; Jun Ohta; Tetsuo Taguchi

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1986
Tongue: English
Weight: 485 KB
Volume: 57
Category: Article
ISSN: 0008-543X
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19860601)57:11<2241::aid-cncr2820571129>3.0.co;2-t

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