Colorectal cancer screening in countries of European Council outside of the EU-28

Table 4 National cancer profiles

Country	Income1	Total population	Cancer registry	Availability at public primary health care levels of early detection tests		Ranking CRC incidence2		Ranking CRC mortality2
				Faecal occult blood test	Bowel cancer screening by exam or colonoscopy	Man	Woman	Man	Woman
North Europe
Iceland2	High	326000	National, population-based	-	-	3rd	3rd	2nd	4th
Norway2	High	4994000	National, population-based	Yes	-	2nd	2nd	3rd	2nd
Central Europe
Liechtenstein3	High non OECD	36925	NA	-	-	2nd	3rd	NR	NR
Monaco	High non OECD	38000	Hospital-based	Yes	Yes	NR	NR	NR	NR
Switzerland3	High	7997000	Sub-national population-baseda	Yes	Yes	2nd	2nd	3rd	3rd
South Europe
Andorra	High non OECD	78000	Hospital-based	Yes	Yes	NR	NR	NR	NR
San Marino	High non OECD	31000	National population-based	Yes	Yes	NR	NR	NR	NR
Balcanian countries
Albania3	Upper middle	3162000	Sub-national, hospital-based	-	-	> 5th	5th	> 5th	5th
Bosnia and Herzegovina3	Upper middle	3834000	NA	-	-	3rd	2nd	2nd	3rd
Montenegro3	Upper middle	621000	NA	-	-	2nd	2nd	2nd	3rd
Serbia3	Upper middle	9553000	Sub-national	Yes	Yes	2nd	2nd	2nd	3rd
FYR of Macedonia3	Upper middle	2106000	National	Yes	-	3rd	3rd	2nd	2nd
Eastern Europe
Republic of Moldova3	Lower middle	3514000	National, hospital-based	Yes	Yes	2nd	2nd	2nd	2nd
Russian Fed3	High non OECD	143000000	Sub-national, population-basedb	Yes	Yes	3rd	2nd	3rd	2nd
Turkey3	Upper middle	73997000	Sub-national population-basedc	Yes	Yes	4th	3rd	4th	3rd
Ukraine3	Lower middle	45530000	National, population-based	-	-	2nd	2nd	2nd	2nd
Caucasican countries
Armenia3	Lower middle	2969000	National, hospital-based	Yes	-	5th	3rd	4th	2nd
Azerbaijan3	Upper middle	9309000	NA	Yes	-	4th	4th	5th	5th
Georgia3	Lower middle	4358000	Sub-national population-based	-	-	5th	> 5th	5th	> 5th

OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development):

¹It referred to pro capita Gross National Income (current US$) as indicated by World Bank: High income $382742014; High Income non OECD: $18939; Upper middle $79012014; Lower middle $2012;

²Incidence and mortality between different cancers for country: data from http://www.who.int/cancer/country-profiles/en/adapted for each country;

³Data available from: http://assets.krebsliga.ch/downloads/fl2014.pdf;

^aRegistry in Zurich, Vaud, Valais, Ticino, St Gall-Appenzell, Neuchâtel, Graubünden and Glarus, Geneva, Basel;

^bRegistry in Saint Petersburg;

^cRegistry in Trabzon, Izmir, Erdine, Antalya. Information about registry existence are available from Ref. [46]. NA: Not available; NR: Not reported; CRC: Colorectal cancer.