Tran, Thuy Ngan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6799-6477
Peeters, Marc
Hoeck, Sarah
Van Hal, Guido http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4611-4076
Janssens, Sharon
De Schutter, Harlinde
Article History
Received: 10 September 2021
Revised: 7 December 2021
Accepted: 23 December 2021
First Online: 12 January 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: When participating in the Flemish CRC screening programme, each person fills out a written informed consent stating that personal information can be used for evaluating and improving the screening programme and for scientific research. Data used in the current study relied on recurrent data exchanges between the Flemish Centre for Cancer Detection and Belgian Cancer Registry, for which approval was given by the Belgian Privacy Commission on 17 September 2013 and amended on 2 July 2019, with reference IVC/KSZG/19/236, number 13/091. Only pseudonymized data were used for this study, and results are reported in an aggregated way. The study protocol conforms to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
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