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International Collaboration Between Japan and Chile to Improve Detection Rates in Colorectal Cancer ScreeningInternational Collaboration Agreement • December 9th, 2015
BACKGROUND: In Chile, mortality from colorectal cancer (CRC) has increased rapidly. To help address this issue, the Prevention Pro- ject for Neoplasia of the Colon and Rectum (PRENEC) program was initiated in 2012 with intensive support from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) in Tokyo, Japan, as part of an international collaboration. METHODS: From June 2012 to July 2014, a total of 10,575 asymptomatic participants were enrolled in PRENEC. Participants with positive immunochemical fecal occult blood test (iFOBT) results or a family history of CRC underwent colonoscopy. The colonoscopy results from a similar, previous project in Chile (PREVICOLON) were compared with those from PRENEC. Furthermore, the initial colonoscopies of 1562 participants in PRENEC were analyzed according to whether the colonoscopists were from TMDU or Chile. RESULTS: The complete colonoscopy, adenoma detec- tion, and cancer detection rates were 88.0%, 26.7%, and 1.1%, respectively, in PREVICOLON, while the
