By Kate Kneisel
Source Medpagetoday
Patients with no family history of colorectal cancer (CRC) whose first colonoscopy was negative may be able to delay their next screening for 15 years rather than the currently recommended 10 years, a Swedish register-based cohort study showed.
For patients with a first colonoscopy negative for CRC, the 10-year standardized incidence ratio was 0.72 (95% CI 0.54-0.94) and the 10-year standardized mortality ratio was 0.55 (95% CI 0.29-0.94), reported Mahdi Fallah, MD, PhD, of the National Center for Tumor Diseases at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, and colleagues in JAMA Oncologyopens in a new tab or window.
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