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Colorectal cancer screening with faecal immunochemical testing, sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy: a microsimulation modelling study

BMJ 2019; 367 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l5383 (Published 02 October 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;367:l5383

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Colorectal cancer screening with faecal immunochemical testing, sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy: a clinical practice guideline

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Colonoscopy mortality

I was surprised to read in the conclusions of this study that "harms are rare and of similar magnitude".
Many studies report patient mortality after colonoscopies, but nobody dies after FIT.
References
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31307102
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31127987
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30896081
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6337013/

Competing interests: No competing interests

04 October 2019
Stavros Saripanidis
Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Thessaloniki, Greece