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Biennial faecal occult blood testing (FOBT) is used to screen for colorectal cancer throughout the UK. Interval cancers are tumours that develop in patients between screening rounds who have had… Click to show full abstract
Biennial faecal occult blood testing (FOBT) is used to screen for colorectal cancer throughout the UK. Interval cancers are tumours that develop in patients between screening rounds who have had a negative FOBT. Through a multicentre study, we compared the demographics of patients with interval cancers, FOBT screen detected cancers and cancers that developed in patients who chose not to participate in the screening programme.
Keywords:
faecal occult;
colorectal cancer;
occult blood;
multicentre study;
blood testing;
interval cancers
Journal Title: Colorectal Disease
Year Published: 2017
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Journal Title: Colorectal Disease
Year Published: 2017
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