Effect of flexible sigmoidoscopy screening on colorectal cancer incidence and mortality: a randomized clinical trial.

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Published in JAMA on August 13, 2014

Authors

Øyvind Holme1, Magnus Løberg2, Mette Kalager3, Michael Bretthauer4, Miguel A Hernán5, Eline Aas6, Tor J Eide7, Eva Skovlund8, Jørn Schneede9, Kjell Magne Tveit10, Geir Hoff11

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Sorlandet Hospital Kristiansand, Kristiansand, Norway2Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway3Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts4Department of Biostatistics Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
2: Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway3Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts4Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts5Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, Department of Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
3: Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway3Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts4Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts5Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, Telemark Hospital Skien, Skien, Norway.
4: Department of Medicine, Sorlandet Hospital Kristiansand, Kristiansand, Norway2Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway3Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts4Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, Department of Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
5: Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts4Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts5Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts.
6: Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
7: Department of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
8: School of Pharmacy, University of Oslo, Norway.
9: Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
10: Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
11: Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway7Telemark Hospital Skien, Skien, Norway13Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway.

Associated clinical trials:

NORCCAP: Norwegian Colorectal Cancer Prevention Trial | NCT00119912

Percentage Visualized Mucosa as a Marker for the Quality of Colonoscopy | NCT04482452

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