Faecal immunochemical screening tests for colorectal cancer: a single-centre case study from the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.um.edu.mt/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/296826/PospichalandBlanar.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.um.edu.mt/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/296826/PospichalandBlanar.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14614/FAECSCREEN/7/16" target="_blank" >10.14614/FAECSCREEN/7/16</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Faecal immunochemical screening tests for colorectal cancer: a single-centre case study from the Czech Republic

Original language description

The goal of this study is to describe the temporary state of faecal occult blood screening in the Czech Republic. Qualitative and quantitative methods of faecal immunochemical testing for haemoglobin were compared and evaluated retrospectively for a period of four years. Screening was actively offered to asymptomatic individuals within their preventive check-ups, starting at the age of 50. Two types of faecal immunochemical tests were used for screening: a qualitative and a quantitative method. Any positive tests detected during screening were followed up by a total colonoscopy. The research sample contained 454 persons; 191 individuals (42.07%) were tested using the qualitative method and 263 individuals (57.83%) were tested through the quantitative method. The qualitative test's specificity for our sample was 75.84%. Better results were yielded by the quantitative test, where the specificity of the sample reached 94.69%. The latter represented an improvement in faecal occult blood test (FOBT) screening in the Czech Republic that can result in more frequent detection of the disease and a lower mortality rate. Occult blood test screening is ideal for the successful prevention of colorectal cancer (CRC) developing from polyps.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

FE - Other fields of internal medicine

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Malta Journal of Health Sciences

ISSN

2312-5705

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

3

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

MT - MALTA

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

46-51

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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