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Mailed fecal testing may catch more cancer than endoscopic screening
Key clinical point: On a population level, mailed fecal testing could catch more cases of advanced neoplasia than endoscopic screening methods.
Major finding: On a population level, mailed fecal immunohistochemical tests had a cumulative diagnostic yield of 4.5%, compared with 2.3% for sigmoidoscopy and 2.2% for colonoscopy.
Study details: A prospective study involving 30,052 screening-naive people.
Disclosures: The study was funded by The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development. The investigators disclosed no conflicts of interest.
Citation:
Grobbee EJ et al. Clin Gastro Hepatol. 2019 Aug 13. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2019.08.015.