Question 482 · LEK · Screening tests
Screening tests for colorectal cancer should be started at the age of 50. As a method alternative to colonoscopy every 10 years, occult blood stool tests can be used and they should be performed:
- A. once every 6 months.
- B. once every 12 months.
- C. once every 2 years.
- D. once every 5 years.
- E. once every 10 years.
Hint
Recall the interval used in European population screening programmes based on faecal occult blood testing.
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