Higher-risk people are shunning colon cancer screens
Monday, May 26, 2008 - 13:07
in Health & Medicine
It is difficult to make colon cancer screening effective, according to a follow-up study conducted by the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet of a screening programme from 1999. Many of the people who would probably have benefited most from the survey opted not to take part...
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