Impact of age- and gender-specific cut-off values for the fecal immunochemical test for hemoglobin in colorectal cancer screening
Impact of age- and gender-specific cut-off values for the fecal immunochemical test for hemoglobin in colorectal cancer screening
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DOI:
10.1016/j.dld.2016.02.001
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发表时间:
2016-05-01
影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Bessa, Xavier
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作者:
Alvarez-Urturi, Cristina;Andreu, Montserrat;Bessa, Xavier
Background: There is no information on the impact of age and gender on the diagnostic yield of different positivity thresholds for the fecal immunochemical test for hemoglobin (FIT).Objectives: To evaluate the performance of this test at distinct positivity cut-offs in a population -based colorectal cancer (CRC) screening program.Methods: CRC detection rate (DR), and analysis of resources were evaluated retrospectively, at different cut-offs of FIT (20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 tig Hb/g) respect to a reference value (15 tig Hb/g), according to age and gender, in a screening population of 10,611 participants of the ColonPrev study (Quintero. NEJM 2013).Results: At the reference cut-off value, 36 CRC and 252 advanced adenomas (AA) were diagnosed. Increasing the cut-off in women 60 years, all increases in the cut-off affected the CRC DR, especially when the cut-off was increased from 35 to 40 tig Hb/g (CRC miss rate 25%).Conclusions: To improve the performance of FIT in CRC screening programs, FIT cut-offs could be individualized by age and gender. (C) 2016 Editrice Gastroenterologica Italiana S.r.l. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.