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Design of a multicentre randomised trial to evaluate flexible sigmoidoscopy in colorectal cancer screening.
Journal of medical screening - 1 Jan 2001
Atkin W S, Edwards R, Wardle J, Northover J M, Sutton S, Hart A R, Williams C B, Cuzick J
Abstract excerpt
A randomised, controlled trial in progress in 14 United Kingdom and six Italian centres is evaluating screening for colorectal cancer using a single flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS) at around the age of 60 with removal during FS of all small adenomas, and colonoscopy for "high risk" polyps. The regimen aims to ensure that 95% of people (with either no polyps or only low risk polyps) complete the entire screening...
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