Impact of delayed screening invitations on screen-detected and interval cancers in the Dutch colorectal cancer screening programme: individual-level data analysis.
Esther Toes-ZoutenkijkLucie de JongeCarola Adriana van IerselManon C W SpaanderAnneke J van VuurenFolkert van KemenadeChristian R RamakersEvelien DekkerIris D NagetaalMonique E van LeerdamIris Lansdorp-VogelaarPublished in: Gut (2023)
The impact of the first COVID-19 wave on screening yield was modest. A very small proportion of the FIT negatives had an interval CRC possibly due to an extended interval, which potentially could have been prevented if they had received the invitation earlier. Nonetheless, no increase in interval CRC rate was observed, indicating that an extended invitation interval up to 30 months had no negative impact on the performance of the CRC screening programme and a modest extension of the invitation interval seems an appropriate intervention.