Journal of insurance medicine (New York, N.Y.)
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Fecal occult blood testing and the incidence of colorectal cancer.
The objective of this abstract is to demonstrate by life table methodology a significant reduction in the mean annual incidence rate of colorectal cancer in randomized groups with annual or biennial screening for fecal occult blood, as compared with the annual incidence rate in the control group. ⋯ Aggregate mean annual incidence rates of colorectal cancer were significantly lower in both screening groups than in the control group, as shown in Table 1. In the source article the same was true for the 18-year cumulative incidence rates, which were also significantly reduced (p < 0.001 for the annual screening group and p = 0.002 for the biennial screening group).