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SUBMITTER: Pin-Vieito N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7770570 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pin-Vieito Noel N Iglesias María José MJ Remedios David D Álvarez-Sánchez Victoria V Fernández-Bañares Fernando F Boadas Jaume J Martínez-Bauer Eva E Campo Rafael R Bujanda Luis L Ferrández Ángel Á Piñol Virginia V Rodríguez-Alcalde Daniel D Menéndez-Rodríguez Martín M García-Morales Natalia N Pérez-Mosquera Cristina C Cubiella Joaquín J
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We aimed to assess the risk of cancer in patients with abdominal symptoms after a complete colonoscopy without colorectal cancer (CRC), according to the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) concentration, as well as its diagnostic accuracy. For this purpose, we performed a post-hoc analysis within a cohort of 1431 patients from the COLONPREDICT study, prospectively designed to assess the fecal immunochemical test accuracy in detecting CRC. Over 36.5 ± 8.4 months, cancer was detected in 115 (8%) patien ...[more]