{"entity":{"id":"paper-iran-colorectal-screening-hassanlouei-mjiri-2022","kind":"paper","name":"Colorectal cancer screening program results in Iran","aka":[],"tldr":"Iran's national bowel cancer screening programme, using a stool test in people aged 50 to 69, reached about one in seven eligible people in 2018 and 2019.","summary":"A cross-sectional report of 2,669,625 people aged 50 to 69 assessed for colorectal cancer screening at health centres in 2018 and 2019, from the integrated electronic health record (SIB). Primary health workers recorded risk factors and offered a faecal immunochemical test; positive results were to be referred for colonoscopy.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"Med J Islam Repub Iran 2022","url":"https://doi.org/10.47176/mjiri.36.118"},{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36447540/"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["colorectal"],"sections":["early-detection"],"technologies":["colorectal-screening"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["iran-mohme"],"pathways":[],"terms":["fit-test"],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"journal":"Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran","year":2022,"doi":"10.47176/mjiri.36.118","pmid":"36447540","authors":"Hassanlouei B, Ostovar A, Motevalian SA, et al.","paperType":"observational","findings":["1,365,248 people (14.23%) were assessed in 2018 and 1,304,377 (12.89%) in 2019; 56.3% were women.","33,299 (3.09%) had a positive stool test in 2018 and 33,583 (2.57%) in 2019.","The positive rate ranged from 0.59% in Bushehr to 7.35% in Isfahan in 2018."],"whatItMeans":"A national screening programme exists and runs through primary care, but coverage was low and the paper calls for colonoscopy capacity to be prepared before screening expands.","caveats":["The paper reports test results, not colonoscopy completion or cancers found.","Percentages are of the target population as recorded by the programme."],"participants":2669625},"route":"/key-papers/paper-iran-colorectal-screening-hassanlouei-mjiri-2022/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"colorectal","kind":"cancer","name":"Colorectal cancer","route":"/cancers/colorectal/"}],"section":[{"id":"early-detection","kind":"section","name":"Early Detection & Screening","route":"/fronts/early-detection/"}],"technology":[{"id":"colorectal-screening","kind":"technology","name":"Colorectal cancer screening (colonoscopy, FIT, stool DNA, blood)","route":"/technologies/colorectal-screening/"}],"institution":[{"id":"iran-mohme","kind":"institution","name":"Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran","route":"/institutions/iran-mohme/"}],"term":[{"id":"fit-test","kind":"term","name":"Faecal immunochemical test (FIT)","route":"/terms/fit-test/"}]}}