Virtual colonoscopy an alternative to fecal occult blood test and colonoscopy for colorectal cancer screening?
Mené en Italie auprès de 16 087 personnes invitées par courrier à participer à un programme de dépistage du cancer colorectal (âge : 54 à 65 ans), cet essai compare, du point de vue du taux de participation puis du taux de détection d'un adénome avancé et d'un cancer colorectal, l'efficacité de quatre méthodes de dépistage (test immunochimique fécal ; purge partielle ou complète de l'intestin puis colographie par tomodensitométrie ; coloscopie)
Colorectal cancer is the third most diagnosed cancer in the world, with population screening being recommended for early disease detection, however, the most optimal method to screen for the disease remains unknown.
In order to compare different screening methods for colorectal cancer, Lapo Sali, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Biomedical, Experimental and Clinical Sciences ‘Mario Serio’, University of Florence, and colleagues, in a study published December 30 in the JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, looked at a data from a single-center randomized controlled screening trial in Florence, Italy, with four parallel groups: biennial fecal immunochemical test (FIT) for three rounds, reduced (r-CTC,) and full cathartic preparation CT colonography (f-CTC,) and optical colonoscopy (OC) in patients aged 54–65 years (16,087 subjects)...
Journal of the National Cancer Institute , communiqué de presse, 2016