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Population-based colorectal cancer screening programmes using a faecal immunochemical test: should faecal haemoglobin cut-offs differ by age and sex?

BACKGROUND: The Basque Colorectal Cancer Screening Programme has both high participation rate and high compliance rate of colonoscopy after a positive faecal occult blood test (FIT). Although, colorectal cancer (CRC) screening with biannual (FIT) has shown to reduce CRC mortality, the ultimate effec...

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Autores principales: Arana-Arri, Eunate, Idigoras, Isabel, Uranga, Begoña, Pérez, Raquel, Irurzun, Ana, Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea, Iñaki, Fraser, Callum G., Portillo, Isabel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5576224/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28851318
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-017-3555-3