Impact of organised colorectal cancer screening on age-specific population incidences: evidence from a quasi-experimental study in Sweden.

ABSTRACT: Colorectal cancer (CRC) incurs a significant disease burden globally. Organised CRC screening programmes have been widely implemented for early detection and prevention. To understand the public health impact of these programmes, quantitative evidence of changes in overall and age-specific population incidences is fundamental. We aimed to provide such evidence by exploiting a time lag in the implementation of organised screening in Sweden: two out of 21 regions (these two regions comprise nearly 20% of the total Swedish population) have offered organised screening since 2008; the other regions have offered CRC screening since 2021. Using registry data on diagnosed CRC cases and socio-demographics for all regions in Sweden over the period 1970-2019, Bayesian structural time series modelling

SUBMITTER: Chauca Strand G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10810926 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature