Please fill in the form which is sent along with your invitation, if you do not want to participate this time or never in the bowel screening programme.

There are alternative options than the SPADE program to model the habitual intake distribution. Using the basic models the results of the different methods is generally similar. However each software has its specific features and aspects that my result in preference of one above the other; e.g. availability of specific models, availability, costs, user-friendliness [Souverein, 2011]

Dr. Susan van den Hof is Head of the Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Surveillance at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in the Netherlands.