[Future perspectives in screening for colorectal cancer]

Based on international experience, pilot studies with fecal occult blood tests and colonoscopy in those with blood in the stools are now to be performed in Scandinavia in limited geographic areas before introducing countrywide screening. The Danish State has offered to pay for feasibility studies in two counties. Provided that the results of randomised clinical trials are reproduced according to acceptability and stage of the cancer found and the organisation is feasible, it will then be possible to evaluate newer technologies as well as other methods which have not previously been evaluated in a satisfactory way.