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. 2025 Jul 8;40(8):881–889. doi: 10.1007/s10654-025-01269-y

Table 4.

Estimation of 10-year CRC risk reduction and numbers of people needed to invite for screening colonoscopy (intention-to-screen analysis) and numbers of people needed to undergo screening colonoscopy (adjusted per-protocol analysis) to prevent one CRC, assuming various degrees of mean delay in cancer registration in the NordICC trial

Analysis Metric Assumed mean delay in cancer registration
Nonea 1 year 2 years 3 years
Intention-to-screen 10-year risk difference 0.22% (0.07–0.37%) 0.29% 0.44% 0.88%
Number needed to invite 455 (270–1429) 345 227 114
Adjusted per-protocol 10-year risk difference 0.38% (0.20–0.58%) 0.51% 0.76% 1.52%
Number needed to scope 263 (172–500) 197 132 66

Results extracted from reference [22]

CRC colorectal cancer

aResults (95% CI) reported by Bretthauer et al. [1]