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Risk of colorectal cancer seven years after flexible sigmoidoscopy screening: randomised controlled trial.

BMJ · 2009 · PMC2688666 · PMID 19483252

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highly significantno p-value reported
Selectively excluding prevalent screen detected colorectal cancers from the analysis would give an apparently highly significant effect of screening with flexible sigmoidoscopy in reducing the incidence of rectosigmoidal cancer for people who attend, but this leads to severe bias.

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