Enrique Quintero, Antoni Castells, Luis Bujanda, Joaquín Cubiella, Dolores Salas, Ángel Lanas, Montserrat Andreu, Fernando Carballo, Juan Diego Morillas, Cristina Hernández, Rodrigo Jover, Isabel Montalvo, Juan Arenas, Eva Laredo, Vicent Hernández, Felipe Iglesias, Estela Cid, Raquel Zubizarreta, Teresa Sala, Marta Ponce, Mercedes Andrés, Gloria Teruel, Antonio Peris, María-Pilar Roncales, Mónica Polo-Tomás, Xavier Bessa, Olga Ferrer-Armengou, Jaume Grau, Anna Serradesanferm, Akiko Ono, José Cruzado, Francisco Pérez-Riquelme, Inmaculada Alonso-Abreu, Mariola de la Vega-Prieto, Juana Maria Reyes-Melian, Guillermo Cacho, José Díaz-Tasende, Alberto Herreros-de-Tejada, Carmen Poves, Cecilio Santander, Andrés González-Navarro
BACKGROUND: Colonoscopy and fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) are accepted strategies for colorectal-cancer screening in the average-risk population. METHODS: In this randomized, controlled trial involving asymptomatic adults 50 to 69 years of age, we compared one-time colonoscopy in 26,703 subjects with FIT every 2 years in 26,599 subjects. The primary outcome was the rate of death from colorectal cancer at 10 years. This interim report describes rates of participation, diagnostic findings, and occurrence of major complications at completion of the baseline screening...
February 23, 2012: New England Journal of Medicine