TY  - JOUR
AU  - Amitay, Efrat
AU  - Cuk, Katarina
AU  - Niedermaier, Tobias
AU  - Weigl, Korbinian
AU  - Brenner, Hermann
TI  - Factors associated with false-positive fecal immunochemical tests in a large German colorectal cancer screening study.
JO  - International journal of cancer
VL  - 144
IS  - 10
SN  - 1097-0215
CY  - Bognor Regis
PB  - Wiley-Liss
M1  - DKFZ-2019-00953
SP  - 2419 - 2427
PY  - 2019
AB  - In recent years fecal immunochemical tests (FITs) have been offered as a primary screening test for colorectal cancer (CRC) in a growing number of countries. Our study aims to identify factors associated with apparently false-positive results of FITs. In this cross-sectional study within the German population-based screening colonoscopy program, participants were invited to provide a stool sample for FIT prior to colonoscopy. Four thousand six hundred and fifty six participants aged 50-79 years with no known history of CRC or inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and no findings of neoplasms at screening colonoscopy were included in the current analyses. Main outcome measures were rates and factors associated with apparently false-positive FIT results. Apparently false-positive FIT results were found for 378 participants (8.1
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:30411799
DO  - DOI:10.1002/ijc.31972
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/143365
ER  -