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: S Lucas Goede, Linda Rabeneck, Marjolein van Ballegooijen, Ann G Zauber, Lawrence F Paszat, Jeffrey S Hoch, Jean H E Yong, Sonja Kroep, Jill Tinmouth, Iris Lansdorp-Vogelaar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5351837?pdf=render

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