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A scoring system for the strength of a family history of colorectal cancer.
Diseases of the colon and rectum - 1 May 2005
Church James M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Family history of colorectal cancer is associated with an increased risk for the disease, although there are many combinations of family history that are hard to correlate with risk status. A scoring system for family history of colorectal cancer was designed to make risk more readily quantifiable. METHODS: A colonoscopy database was used to test the following points system: each first-degree relative...
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