Colorectal two-week wait service and quantitative FIT: it's not just about colon cancer

CONCLUSION: A negative FIT test within the local NG12 symptomatic patient group signifies a low risk of colon cancer and identifies patients who can be initially investigated with cross-sectional imaging. However, when all cancer types are considered, cancer prevalence in this group remains above 6%. In relative risk terms a negative FIT represents a small change in overall risk and this patient group still qualify for investigation through 2WW pathways.PMID:34939845 | DOI:10.1308/rcsann.2021.0184
Source: Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England - Category: Surgery Authors: Source Type: research