Open AccessStage-Specific Sensitivity of Fecal Immunochemical Tests for Detecting Colorectal Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Author(s) -
Tobias Niedermaier,
Yesilda Balavarca,
Hermann Brenner
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the american journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.907
H-Index - 252
eISSN - 1572-0241
pISSN - 0002-9270
DOI - 10.14309/ajg.0000000000000465
Subject(s) - medicine , meta analysis , stage (stratigraphy) , colorectal cancer , colonoscopy , confidence interval , oncology , cochrane library , bivariate analysis , cancer , statistics , paleontology , mathematics , biology
Fecal immunochemical tests (FITs) detect the majority of colorectal cancers (CRCs), but evidence for variation in sensitivity according to the CRC stage is sparse and has not yet been systematically synthesized. Thus, our objective was to systematically review and summarize evidence on the stage-specific sensitivity of FITs.