Governance Department, Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari, Viale Degasperi 79, Trento Italy.
Department of Clinical and Evaluative Epidemiology, Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari, Viale Verona, Trento, Italy.
Dig Liver Dis. 2022 Mar;54(3):400-406. doi: 10.1016/j.dld.2021.03.016. Epub 2021 Apr 11.
The impact of a faecal immunochemical test-based colorectal cancer (CRC) screening program in terms of patient prognosis could be affected by lead-time bias, which artificially increases the survival of screen-detected patients due to the early diagnosis.
To provide a description of the impact of the CRC screening program in the Trentino Region (Italy), including the Cure Fraction (CF), a prognostic indicator not affected by lead-time bias.
The program started in 2008, inviting the resident population aged 50-69 years. In this retrospective cohort study, 1,697 CRC diagnosed between 2003 and 2014 in patients aged 50-69 years were classified as pre-screening (PS), screen-detected (SD), interval cancers (IC) and not-screen-detected (NSD). We compared groups by stage at diagnosis and CF. Trends in CRC mortality were reported.
The proportion of stage I among SD cases was 51%, higher than PS (19%; OR 4.66, 95%CI 3.50-6.20), NSD (20.6%; OR 3.96, 95%CI 2.95-5.32) and IC (33.3%; OR 2.11, 95%CI 1.10-4.04). The CF of PS, NSD and SD cases was respectively 57% (95%CI 54-60%), 60% (95%CI 58-63%) and 93% (95%CI 89-96%). CRC mortality dropped from 40.7 to 25.6\100,000.
The program significantly improved the prognosis of patients, decreasing CRC mortality and incidence of advanced CRCs.
基于粪便免疫化学试验的结直肠癌(CRC)筛查计划对患者预后的影响可能受到领先时间偏倚的影响,由于早期诊断,这种偏倚会人为地增加筛查发现的患者的生存率。
描述特伦蒂诺地区(意大利)的 CRC 筛查计划的影响,包括不受领先时间偏倚影响的预后指标治愈率(CF)。
该计划于 2008 年启动,邀请 50-69 岁的居民参加。在这项回顾性队列研究中,将 2003 年至 2014 年间 50-69 岁诊断为 CRC 的 1697 例患者分为筛查前(PS)、筛查发现(SD)、间隔癌(IC)和未筛查发现(NSD)。我们通过诊断时的分期和 CF 对各组进行比较。报告了 CRC 死亡率的趋势。
SD 病例中 I 期的比例为 51%,高于 PS(19%;OR 4.66,95%CI 3.50-6.20)、NSD(20.6%;OR 3.96,95%CI 2.95-5.32)和 IC(33.3%;OR 2.11,95%CI 1.10-4.04)。PS、NSD 和 SD 病例的 CF 分别为 57%(95%CI 54-60%)、60%(95%CI 58-63%)和 93%(95%CI 89-96%)。CRC 死亡率从 40.7 降至 25.6/100000。
该计划显著改善了患者的预后,降低了 CRC 的死亡率和晚期 CRC 的发生率。