In a 10-year trial, people offered a colonoscopy were not less likely to die from colon cancer.
known as the Nordic-European Initiative on Colorectal Cancer, or NordICC, is a pragmatic, randomized trial, meaning that it was designed to work as clowith no apparent higher risk of colorectal cancerIn these and other European countries, colonoscopy isn’t recommended widely the way it is in countries like the U.S. These peoplely assigned to two groups: One group would be invited to participate in a single screening colonoscopy, while the other control group received no invitation or screening.
-year period, 0.98% of the invited group went on to be diagnosed with colorectal cancer, compared to 1.20% of the usual-care group—a relative risk reduction of 18%. The death rate from year period. The overall rate of dying from any cause was also similar in both groups . The findings wereColonoscopies use a long, camera-fitted tube to look for and often remove suspicious growths inside the colon—growths that could become cancerous or already are. Other observational research hasrisk of both colorectal cancer diagnosis and death
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