Association of Colonoscopy and Death From Colorectal Cancer

  1. Nancy N. Baxter, MD, PhD;
  2. Meredith A. Goldwasser, ScD;
  3. Lawrence F. Paszat, MD, MS;
  4. Refik Saskin, MSc;
  5. David R. Urbach, MD, MSc; and
  6. Linda Rabeneck, MD, MPH
  1. From Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital; University Health Network and University of Toronto; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences; and Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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        Figure. Influence of the exclusion window on the conditional odds ratio for the association between attempted colonoscopy and colorectal cancer deaths.

        Values >0 indicate an increased risk with colonoscopy, and values <0 indicate a decreased risk (see Methods section).

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