Another brick in the large wall against colorectal cancer: a commentary on effectiveness of screening colonoscopy

Yair Glazer¹, Zvi H Perry^{1

2}, Itzhak Avital^{1

3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery A, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel.
² Department of Epidemiology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
³ Soroka University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
⁴ Department of Healthcare Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Editorial

Yair Glazer et al. Transl Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2017.

. 2017 Jun 30:2:59.

doi: 10.21037/tgh.2017.06.02. eCollection 2017.

Yair Glazer¹, Zvi H Perry^{1

2}, Itzhak Avital^{1

3

4}

¹ Department of Surgery A, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel.
² Department of Epidemiology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
³ Soroka University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
⁴ Department of Healthcare Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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