Harms, benefits and costs of fecal immunochemical testing versus guaiac fecal occult blood testing for colorectal cancer screening

Harms, benefits and costs of fecal immunochemical testing versus guaiac fecal occult blood testing for colorectal cancer screening

Background The ColonCancerCheck screening program for colorectal cancer (CRC) in Ontario, Canada, is considering switching from biennial guaiac fecal occult blood test (gFOBT) screening between age 50±74 years to the more sensitive, but also less specific fecal immunochemical test (FIT). The aim of...

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Main Authors: Goede, S., Rabeneck, L., Van Ballegooijen, M., Zauber, A., Paszat, L., Hoch, J., Yong, J., Kroep, S., Tinmouth, J., Lansdorp_Vogelaar, Iris
Format: Journal Article
Published: Public Library of Science 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/52611

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