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The study was certified as exempt from institutional review board review by the Research Ethics Committee of the National Taiwan University Hospital (201511034\u2009W). Our study also had been privileged permitted to access to and analyze the data based on a surveillance and quality assurance program of our national wide colorectal cancer screening which has been fully supported by Health Promotion Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare.","order":1,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Ethics approval and consent to participate"}},{"value":"Not applicable.","order":2,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Consent for publication"}},{"value":"The authors declare that they have no competing interests.","order":3,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Competing interests"}},{"value":"Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.","order":4,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Publisher\u2019s Note"}}],"article-number":"94"}}