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Country fact sheet: Belgium (Flanders)

COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING PROGRAMME

Reporting year for qualitative data: No national data currently available

Performance indicators

Reporting year for quantitative data: 2016
Source of quantitative data: Report (EU Report 2017)

FIT gFOBT Sigmoidoscopy   Colonoscopy
Target age and regional limitation if applicable: 50-74 (Flanders) 50-74 (Wallonia)
Invitation coverage (%): 93.0 123.8
Participation rate (%): 50.3 4.5
Examination coverage (%): 46.7 5.6
Completeness of data related to screening results (%): 100.0 97.9
Completeness of data related to information about attendance to colonoscopy assessment (%): 100.0 100.1
Further assessment (diagnosis colonoscopy) rate (%): 8.1 3.9
Further assessment participation rate (%): 36.3 72.6
Detection rate of adenomas (x 1000): 6.8
Detection rate of advanced adenomas (x 1000): 4.75
Detection rate of colorectal cancers (x 1000): 2.0
Positive Predictive Value of further assessment to detect adenomas (%): 23.1
Positive Predictive Value of further assessment to detect advanced adenomas (%): 16.0
Positive Predictive Value of further assessment to detect colorectal cancers (%): 6.7
More quantitative data (Flanders: Male - 2014/FIT)
More quantitative data (Flanders: Women - 2014/FIT)
More quantitative data (Wallonia: Male - 2014/gFOBT)
More quantitative data (Wallonia: Women - 2014/gFOBT)


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