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Early detection of colorectal cancer using symptoms and the ColonFlag: case-control and cohort studies

2023-01-24

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<h4>Background: </h4> Early detection of colorectal cancer confers substantial prognostic benefit. Most symptoms are non-specific and easily missed. The ColonFlag algorithm identifies risk of undiagnosed colorectal cancer using age, sex and changes in full blood count (FBC) indices. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the ColonFlag detects undiagnosed colorectal cancer prior to the recording of sympto...

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Literature Corpus work: c32bbc29-40c6-5af4-928d-6a6ae46f406d
DOI: 10.3310/nihropenres.13360.1

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