TY - JOUR AU - Hirst, Yasemin AU - Kerrison, Robert AU - Kobayashi, Lindsay C. AU - Counsell, Nicholas AU - Djedovic, Natasha AU - Ruwende, Josephine AU - Stewart, Mark AU - von Wagner, Christian PY - 2016 DA - 2016/01/25 TI - Text Reminders in Colorectal Cancer Screening (TRICCS): Protocol for a randomised controlled trial JO - BMC Public Health SP - 74 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - Screening with the guaiac faecal occult blood test (gFOBt) is associated with improved colorectal cancer (CRC) survival, and is offered biennially to men and women aged 60–74 years in England’s national Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP). Uptake of the gFOBt is low, with only 54 % of the eligible population completing the test. Text-message reminders could improve uptake of gFOBt. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2733-6 DO - 10.1186/s12889-016-2733-6 ID - Hirst2016 ER -