Patient delay in colorectal cancer patients: associations with rectal bleeding and thoughts about cancer.

Rectal bleeding is considered to be an alarm symptom of colorectal cancer. However, the symptom is seldom reported to the general practitioner and it is often assumed that patients assign the rectal bleeding to benign conditions. The aims of this questionnaire study were to examine whether rectal bl...

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Main Authors: Anette F Pedersen, Rikke P Hansen, Peter Vedsted
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23894527/?tool=EBI