Strategies to identify the Lynch syndrome among patients with colorectal cancer: a cost-effectiveness analysis.

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Published in Ann Intern Med on July 19, 2011

Authors

Uri Ladabaum1, Grace Wang, Jonathan Terdiman, Amie Blanco, Miriam Kuppermann, C Richard Boland, James Ford, Elena Elkin, Kathryn A Phillips

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA. uri.ladabaum@stanford.edu

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