Department of colorectal cancer screening

ColorectalScreen Norway aims to detect precancerous lesions of colorectal cancer at an early stage of disease development, in order to offer more gentle treatment and reduce the risk of short- and long-term side effects of advanced treatment, and to reduce mortality from the disease. The target groups for screening are women and men from 55 to 65 years of age to be screened for occult blood in their stools every other year.

The department cooperates closely with the national screening laboratory, which performs analyses on blood in stool samples, and with the screening centers that perform follow-up colonoscopy for participants with a positive screening test, and with the pathology laboratories. The department also has an extensive research activity within the field of colorectal cancer screening and prevention.