Does the Invitation by the General Practitioner Improve Patients' Participation in Colorectal Cancer Screening? (Pagedocc1)

University of Paris 5 - Rene Descartes

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Colorectal Cancer

Treatments: Other: Co-signed letter; Other: Classical Letter

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01279278

PAGEDOCC1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The propose of this study is to assess the effect of general practitioner's involvement on first patients' solicitation in screening for colorectal cancer by testing for faecal occult blood (FOBT).

Enrollment: 2,700 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 74 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged : 50 to 74 years.
• Not having ever been invited to participate in colorectal screening.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who have a Fecal Occult Blood Test for less than 2 years or a colonoscopy within the past 5 years or excluded for medical reasons (according to information known from ADECA).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2,700 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Treatment:

Other: Classical Letter

Co-signed Letter

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Co-signed letter