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Colorectal Cancer Screening (CRC) in the EU
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to submit a manuscript to the Special Issue of Gastrointestinal Disorders on ‘Colorectal Cancer Screening (CRC) in the EU’. Possible topics are adherence to EU guidelines, strengths and limitations of current CRC screening strategies, benefits and risks of specific screening strategies, similarities and differences in CRC screening among EU countries, determinants of (non)participation, good practices of decreasing inequality in CRC screening and improving uptake of CRC screening in the target population, especially vulnerable groups.
Dr. Sarah Hoeck
Prof. Dr. Guido Van Hal
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Gastrointestinal Disorders is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- colorectal cancer
- screening
- prevention
- colonoscopy
- qualitative research
- quantitative research
- EU guidelines
- participation
- inequality
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