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. 1984 Mar;77(3):186-8.
doi: 10.1177/014107688407700305.

Screening for colorectal carcinoma

J Cappel, U Blum, E Ungeheuer

Screening for colorectal carcinoma

J Cappel et al. J R Soc Med. 1984 Mar.

Abstract

Since the introduction in the Federal Republic of Germany of free routine screening for colorectal carcinoma (digital examination of the rectum in 1971; test for occult blood in the faeces in 1977), the number of Dukes' stage A cases diagnosed at one hospital has increased by 30%. The average interval between onset of symptoms and diagnosis has shortened from 5 to 3.8 months, and the proportion of inoperable carcinomas has decreased by 10%.

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