Can the performance of a quantitative FIT-based colorectal cancer screening programme be enhanced by lowering the threshold and increasing the interval?

TY - JOUR

T1 - Can the performance of a quantitative FIT-based colorectal cancer screening programme be enhanced by lowering the threshold and increasing the interval?

AU - Digby, Jayne

AU - Fraser, Callum G.

AU - Carey, Frank A.

AU - Steele, Robert J. C.

N1 - Funded by the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health Department. Project: Establishing a Bowel Screening Research Unit (Grant Ref: CZH/6/4). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection, statistical analyses, interpretation of the results, or writing of the manuscript.

PY - 2018/5

Y1 - 2018/5

KW - colorectal cancer

KW - faecal haemoglobin

KW - faecal immunochemical test

KW - faecal occult blood test

KW - screening

U2 - 10.1136/gutjnl-2017-314862

DO - 10.1136/gutjnl-2017-314862

M3 - Letter

C2 - 28838973

SN - 0017-5749

VL - 67

SP - 993

EP - 994

JO - Gut

JF - Gut

IS - 5

ER -