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A study to find who needs to be screened for bowel cancer

Overview

Cancer types:

Bowel (colorectal) cancer

Status:

Results

Phase:

Other

Details

This study looked at factors to help work out who is at risk of bowel cancer and needs a test to check. This test was a colonoscopy. It also looked at people with a risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

The people taking part had already provided a poo sample and their doctor had asked them to have a colonoscopy.

The study was open for people to join between 2015 and 2017, and the team published the results in 2019.

Recruitment start: 1 July 2015

Recruitment end: 31 December 2017

How to join

Please note: In order to join a trial you will need to discuss it with your doctor, unless otherwise specified.

Chief investigators

Professor Robert JC Steele

Supported by

Chief Scientist Office (CSO)

NHS Tayside

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

University of Dunde

Last reviewed: 05 Apr 2021

CRUK internal database number: 13597

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