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. 2021 Feb 1;116(2):433-434.
doi: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000000970.

Colorectal Cancer Screening and COVID-19

Shreya Patel  1   2 , Rachel B Issaka  3   4 , Ellen Chen  5 , Ma Somsouk  1   2   6
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Colorectal Cancer Screening and COVID-19

Shreya Patel et al. Am J Gastroenterol. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Guarantor of the article: Shreya Patel, MD, MPH.

Specific author contributions: S.P.: study concept and design, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of the data, drafting of the manuscript, and critical revision of the manuscript. R.B.I.: critical revision of the manuscript. E.C.: critical revision of the manuscript. M.S.: study concept and design, analysis and interpretation of the data, critical revision of the manuscript, and study supervisor.

Financial support: R.B.I. receives funding from National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute award number K08 CA241296. M.S. was supported in part by the San Francisco Cancer Initiative.

Potential competing interests: None to report.

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Changes in healthcare delivery at San Francisco Health Network (SFHN).
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