The prestigious American journal “Annals of Internal Medicine” has published a study conducted by the Veneto Cancer Registry on the effectiveness of colorectal screening programs in combating colon rectus at the proximal colon level, of the distal colon and rectum.
The analysis shows that the performance of the screening protocol based on the test for fecal occult blood, followed by colonoscopy in case of positivity, is much higher towards lesions at the distal colon and rectum, compared to those located in the proximal colon.
The scientific article is available in the Scientific Publications section.