The Accuracy of Fecal Immunochemical Test in Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Meta-Analysis

Document Type : Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

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Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Public Health, Khon Kean University, 40002, Thailand.

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Objective: To investigate the accuracy of OC-Sensor and colorectal cancer screening in a population-based randomized controlled trial at Khon Kaen province, Thailand. Methods: The MOOSE Guidelines for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Observational Studies was applied. Eligibility criteria were English language, hand searching was conducted using Medline databases from 2010 to 2021 for identify literatures reviews of OC-Sensor and colorectal cancer screening. The initials screen based on the research titles and abstracts, final screenings based on full-text reports. Synthesis the results with meta-analysis using fixed effect model, random effect model, determined statistically significant with p-value < 0.05.  Confirmed the pooled effect sizes of high heterogeneity by meta-regression including tested precision of each estimates by bubble plot using STATA version 14. Results: Meta-regression showed sensitivity of OC- sensor = 72.54% (95% CI: 65.82-79.25), and specificity of OC- sensor = 89.59% (95% CI: 87.23-91.95). Conclusions: Sample size and cut-off of fecal hemoglobin concentration in each study were differed but sub-group analysis and sensitivity analysis were not considered for this analysis because population, setting and location for detected cancer of included study are not differences. 
 

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Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
Volume 23, Issue 3
March 2022
Pages 759-766

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  • Receive Date: 15 November 2021
  • Revise Date: 17 January 2022
  • Accept Date: 12 March 2022

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