Table 1 Demographic variables; including gender and age groups and the immediate outcomes following screening for Episode 2

From: Optimising faecal occult blood screening:retrospective analysis of NHS Bowel Cancer Screening data to improve the screening algorithm

Variable

Episode 2, No. (%)

Number

284 261

Gender

Male

130176 (45.8)

Female

154 085 (54.2)

Age group

<60years

0

60–61years

16 (0.0)

62–63years

50 801 (17.9)

64–65years

62 946 (22.1)

66–67years

60 104 (21.1)

68–69years

55 225 (19.4)

⩾70years

55 169 (19.4)

Screening outcome

Colonoscopy

3891 (1.4)

Not screeneda

1272 (0.4)

Other diagnostic test

122 (0)

Returned to screening

278 976 (98.1)

  1. In total, 1.4% of subjects underwent colonoscopy.
  2. aThis corresponds to the lost to follow-up.
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