Why do participants in the Flemish colorectal cancer screening program not undergo a diagnostic colonoscopy after a positive fecal immunochemical test?

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge the collaborators of the Belgian Cancer Registry, for analyses reported in personal communication (stages of CRCs for groups with and without a DC within 12 months after the positive screening result; survival rates by stage). We acknowledge the Flemish Colorectal Cancer Screening Task Force, for functioning as a sounding board.

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Funding

The Flemish CRC screening programme is funded exclusively by the Agency for Care and Health, part of the Flemish Ministry of Welfare, Public Health and Family (https://www.vlaanderen.be/en). The Flemish Ministry was not involved in any phase of this study (design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, writing the manuscript).