Colorectal cancer is increasing in rural Kenya: challenges and perspectives

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Tenwek Hospital, Bomet, Kenya; Department of Surgery, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
² Department of Surgery, Tenwek Hospital, Bomet, Kenya.
³ Paul L. Foster School of Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Hemato-oncology Unit, Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
⁶ Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Robert K Parker et al. Gastrointest Endosc. 2019 Jun.

. 2019 Jun;89(6):1234-1237.

doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2018.12.003. Epub 2018 Dec 11.

¹ Department of Surgery, Tenwek Hospital, Bomet, Kenya; Department of Surgery, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
² Department of Surgery, Tenwek Hospital, Bomet, Kenya.
³ Paul L. Foster School of Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Hemato-oncology Unit, Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
⁶ Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Abstract

Colon cancer in Africa: Primetime for screening?
May FP, Anandasabapathy S. May FP, et al. Gastrointest Endosc. 2019 Jun;89(6):1238-1240. doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2019.04.206. Gastrointest Endosc. 2019. PMID: 31104752 No abstract available.

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