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Colorectal Cancer
"Effect of Faecal Occult Blood Testing on Colorectal Mortality: Results of a Population-Based Case-Control Study in the District of Florence, Italy."
November 24th, 1997
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in International Journal of Cancer, "The aim of our case-control study was to estimate the effect on mortality from colorectal cancer (CRC) of a population-based screening with a faecal occult blood test started in 1982 in a rural area of the district of Florence. We examined the relationship between mortality and the interval since the most recent screening. The cases in the study were 206 individuals who had died from CRC after the age of 41 years. Five controls were selected randomly from the list of individuals alive at the time of diagnosis of the corresponding case and were matched by sex, age, and place and length of...
Source: Cancer Weekly (1997-11-24)
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