Colorectal Cancer Screening

About this book

Eleven chapters drawn from more than two decades of running the Taiwanese Colorectal Cancer Screening Program. They cover the epidemiology and risk factors of colorectal cancer, organised population-based screening, the choice of screening test, colonoscopy-based and non-invasive stool testing, health information systems and quality assurance. Later chapters turn to screening theory: short-term evaluation, mathematical modelling beyond randomised trials, cost-effectiveness analysis, and personalised risk-based screening in the big data era. Written for gastroenterologists, colonoscopists, primary care doctors, public health workers and programme planners.