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SUBMITTER: Kooyker AI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7383838 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kooyker Arthur I AI Toes-Zoutendijk Esther E Opstal-van Winden Annemieke W J AWJ Spaander Manon C W MCW Buskermolen Maaike M van Vuuren Hanneke J HJ Kuipers Ernst J EJ van Kemenade Folkert J FJ Ramakers Chris C Thomeer Maarten G J MGJ Dekker Evelien E Nagtegaal Iris D ID de Koning Harry J HJ van Leerdam Monique E ME Lansdorp-Vogelaar Iris I
International journal of cancer 20200109 4
The Dutch colorectal cancer (CRC) screening program started in 2014, inviting the target population biennially to perform a fecal immunochemical test (FIT). We obtained prospectively collected data from the national screening information-system to present the results of the second round (2016) and evaluate the impact of increasing the FIT cut-off halfway through the first round from 15 to 47 μg Hb/g feces on outcomes in the second round. Second round screening was done with a 47 μg Hb/g feces FI ...[more]