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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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Autores principales: Goede, S. Lucas, Rabeneck, Linda, van Ballegooijen, Marjolein, Zauber, Ann G., Paszat, Lawrence F., Hoch, Jeffrey S., Yong, Jean H. E., Kroep, Sonja, Tinmouth, Jill, Lansdorp-Vogelaar, Iris
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5351837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28296927
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172864