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. 2019 Nov;7(21):604. doi: 10.21037/atm.2019.09.75

Table 1. Basic information.

Subsets N (%)
Sex
   Female 4,211 (60.4)
   Male 2,760 (39.6)
Age, years
   Median 62.0
   ≤60 2,861 (41.1)
   >60 4,104 (58.9)
Education
   No education 35 (0.5)
   Primary school 600 (8.6)
   Middle school 5,169 (74.2)
   Undergraduate 1,141 (16.4)
   Graduate 26 (0.4)
Questionnaire result
   Positive 894 (12.8)
   Negative 6,077 (87.2)
FITs results
   Positive 377 (8.3)
   Negative 4,187 (91.7)
FITs & questionnaire
   Positive 1,219 (17.5)
   Negative 5,752 (82.5)
Colonoscopy testing
   Yes 647 (53.1)
   No 572 (46.9)
Colonoscopy results
   Hyperplastic polyp 16 (6.3)
   Inflammatory polyp 57 (22.4)
   Adenoma 170 (66.7)
   Adenocarcinoma 11 (4.3)
   Carcinoid 1 (0.4)
Pathology
   Advanced cancer 3 (0.5)
   Early cancer 5 (0.8)
   CRC of unknown stage 2 (0.3)
   Advanced adenoma 81 (13.0)
   Other polyps 178 (28.6)
   Carcinoid 1 (0.2)
   Negative 353 (56.7)

FIT, fecal immunological test; CRC, colorectal cancer.