Table 1

Number of participants, colorectal cancer (CRC) cases, detection rate (per 100 participants), incidence rate (per 1000 person-years) and mortality from CRC (per 1000 person-years) in a CRC screening programme

Characteristics	Number of participants	Adenoma				CRC
Characteristics	Number of participants	Prevalent cases	Detection rate	Incident cases	Incidence rate	Prevalent cases	Detection rates	Incident cases	Incidence rate	Death	Mortality rate
Age (years)
40–49	57 153	123	0.22	147	0.68	32	0.06	89	0.41	13	0.06
50–59	53 525	454	0.85	397	2.14	41	0.08	180	0.96	32	0.17
60–69	43 663	514	1.18	699	4.63	66	0.15	348	2.29	57	0.37
≥70	31 402	155	0.49	151	1.22	78	0.25	399	3.20	110	0.88
Gender
Male	75 267	816	1.08	803	3.14	123	0.16	502	1.94	104	0.40
Female	110 476	430	0.39	591	1.40	94	0.09	514	1.22	108	0.26
f-Hb (ng Hb/mL)
Undetected	86 574	NK	0.00	394	1.52	NK	0.00	226	0.87	49	0.19
1–19	62 235	NK	0.00	300	1.17	NK	0.00	301	1.18	67	0.26
20–49	19 322	NK	0.00	187	1.92	NK	0.00	110	1.13	27	0.28
50–99	8297	NK	0.00	88	2.39	NK	0.00	95	2.58	12	0.33
100–149	2850	318	11.16	103	10.20	34	1.19	31	2.80	8	0.71
150–249	2062	258	12.51	92	14.15	20	0.97	36	5.04	8	1.10
250–449	1522	221	14.52	72	17.39	21	1.38	38	8.05	10	2.09
≥450	2881	449	15.58	158	21.15	142	4.93	179	22.05	31	3.54
Total	185 743	1246	0.67	1394	2.06	217	0.12	1016	1.49	212	0.31

The baseline f-Hb was used.
f-Hb, faecal haemoglobin; NK, not known.