Mailed faecal immunochemical test programmes
Intervention1 paper3 findings
- Humans1
Outcomes
2Educational inequality in screening uptake
no changein humans1downin humans1Low certainty
1 study
Educational inequality in screening uptake
no changein humans1downin humans1Low certainty
Mailed faecal immunochemical test programmes have no effect on educational inequality in screening uptake in humans.
Humansbetween lower and higher education
Mailed stool tests increase cancer screening uptake in Europe · International journal of epidemiology · 1 Aug 2026
Mailed faecal immunochemical test programmes decrease educational inequality in screening uptake in humans (+8.9 ppts (95% CI: 3.3-14.5)).
Humansbetween middle and higher education; lifetime uptake
Mailed stool tests increase cancer screening uptake in Europe · International journal of epidemiology · 1 Aug 2026
Stool-based screening uptake
upin humans1Low certainty
1 study
Stool-based screening uptake
upin humans1Low certainty
Mailed faecal immunochemical test programmes increase stool-based screening uptake in humans (+28.3 ppts (95% CI: 12.3-44.3)).
Humanslifetime uptake
Mailed stool tests increase cancer screening uptake in Europe · International journal of epidemiology · 1 Aug 2026
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1Mailed stool tests increase cancer screening uptake in Europe
Mailed programmes increased lifetime and past-2-year screening uptake by 28.3 and 30.2 percentage points, respectively, compared with countries…Mailed programmes increased lifetime and past-2-year screening uptake by 28.3 and 30.2 percentage points, respectively, compared with countries without them.