{"id":10412,"date":"2021-05-18T16:34:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/?post_type=ec-news&#038;p=10412"},"modified":"2021-05-18T16:34:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:34:03","slug":"colonoscopy-more-effective-than-the-fecal-immunochemical-test-in-case-control-study","status":"publish","type":"ec-news","link":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/colonoscopy-more-effective-than-the-fecal-immunochemical-test-in-case-control-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonoscopy More Effective Than the Fecal Immunochemical Test in Case-Control Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Randomized controlled trials comparing the use of colonoscopy to the fecal immunochemical test (FIT) for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening are underway.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A case-control study from Korea involved 61,221 CRC cases and 306,099 age- and sex-matched controls. Colonoscopy was associated with a 71% reduction in CRC risk, including 53% in the proximal colon and 76% in the distal colon. The reductions were slightly lower in women and older patients. The reduction in CRC risk was 74% for colonoscopy performed by gastroenterologists and 60% when performed by surgeons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decrease in CRC risk associated with FIT exposure was 19% for 1 FIT in the prior 10 years and 55% for 5 or more FITs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randomized controlled trials comparing the use of colonoscopy to the fecal immunochemical test (FIT) for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening are underway.&nbsp;&nbsp; A case-control study from Korea involved 61,221 CRC cases and 306,099 age- and sex-matched controls. Colonoscopy was associated with a 71% reduction in CRC risk, including 53% in the proximal colon and 76% in &#8230; <a title=\"Colonoscopy More Effective Than the Fecal Immunochemical Test in Case-Control Study\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/colonoscopy-more-effective-than-the-fecal-immunochemical-test-in-case-control-study\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Colonoscopy More Effective Than the Fecal Immunochemical Test in Case-Control Study\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[1768,1769],"tags":[2058,1823,1343,2705,1898],"class_list":["post-10412","ec-news","type-ec-news","status-publish","hentry","category-asge-journal-scan","category-asge-kolon","tag-colon-2","tag-colorectal-cancer","tag-crc","tag-fecal-immunochemical-testing","tag-fit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news\/10412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ec-news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}