How would you feel if you were told, "Your fecal occult blood test was positive" during a health checkup or a municipal ...

You open your health checkup results and see: "Fecal occult blood, 1st time: negative, 2nd time: positive," followed by ...

Stool-based colorectal cancer (CRC) screening involves a two-step approach for those with a positive test that includes a follow-up colonoscopy. This meta-analysis found that patient navigation and ...

Although considered a single class, fecal immunochemical tests (FITs) vary in their ability to detect advanced colorectal neoplasia (ACN) and should not be considered interchangeable, new research ...

A large screening study across 13 regions of Shandong Province, China, finds that a fecal immunochemical test threshold of 25 µg/g detects 96.4% of colorectal cancers while cutting the colonoscopy ...

Known differences in colorectal cancer characteristics between men and women are also observed in fecal immunochemical tests.

A new stool test appears to detect colorectal cancer precursors better than the current fecal immunochemical test. This could further reduce the number of new colorectal cancer cases as well as the ...

About The Study: This study found that comparable levels of sensitivity and specificity as reported for the multitarget stool RNA (mt-sRNA) test in the colorectal cancer (CRC)-PREVENT study could be ...

Fecal testing is typically more popular than having a colonoscopy as the initial step in colorectal cancer screening because it can be done at home and mailed to a laboratory. However, for those with ...

A meta-analysis favored patient navigation and patient or clinician reminders for increasing colonoscopy completion after stool-based tests for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening turned up positive.