A population screening for colon cancer by public health institute RIVM identified the disease more often than expected. The turnout for the screening was also higher than expected - between 2014 and 2017 a total of 3.85 million people sent in stool samples to be tested for colon cancer. That is over 70 percent of the people who were invited to do so, according to an evaluation report Erasmus MC and the Netherlands Cancer Institute drew up for the RIVM, NOS reports.
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Sep 16 '14 15:24
According to researchers from Leiden, the risk of over treatment in women over 70 years is so great that breast cancer screening should be stopped for the whole group.
