Capsule colonoscopy option increases uptake of colorectal cancer screening
Completed
- Conditions
- Colorectal cancer screeningCancerColorectal cancer
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN59303311
- Lead Sponsor
- Given Imaging Ltd. (Germany)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 2150
Inclusion Criteria
1. Persons over 55 years of age eligible for screening insured with BKK 24 in the area of Rinteln/Lower Saxonia (Germany) are invited by a letter sent out from BKK 24 medical insurance during 2009 to participate in screening using either capsule or conventional colonoscopy.
2. Interested persons are informed by four gastroenterologists and one of the tests will then be performed at screnees choice
Exclusion Criteria
1. Symptomatic persons
2. Persons having undergone screening colonoscopy
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method