Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who received a positive fecal occult blood test as an initial screening for colorectal cancer may need ...

Diana L. Miglioretti, Carolyn M. Rutter, Susan Carol Bradford, Ann G. Zauber, Larry G. Kessler, Eric J. Feuer and David C. Grossman Background: Screening for fecal occult blood can be effective in ...

April 16, 2010 — Three fourths of primary care physicians order or perform in-office fecal occult blood testing (FOBT), despite national guidelines that support home, not office, collection for FOBT, ...

1. A Single Office-Based Stool Blood Test (FOBT) Is a Poor, but Often Used, Screening Test for Colorectal Cancer Two articles and an editorial in the Jan. 18, 2005, Annals of Internal Medicine discuss ...

The advantages of detecting colon cancer at an early stage have led to the establishment of national fecal occult blood test (FOBT) screening programs in the UK and Australia. Patients with a positive ...

More than 75 percent of primary care physicians in the United States who order or perform the fecal occult blood test as a screening option for colorectal cancer perform an in-office test rather than ...

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(Reuters Health) - A screening test for colon cancer that looks for "invisible" blood in stool may also predict a heightened risk of premature death from other causes, a recent study suggests.

A 56-year-old woman presents to the hospital after receiving positive findings on a fecal occult blood test (FOBT). She has no history of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). On questioning, she says ...

Thousands of U.S. Navy service members, veterans, and their beneficiaries who tested positive in a screening typically used for colon cancer were never alerted to the results and few received follow ...

'Invisible' blood detected in the stools is linked to a heightened risk of death from all causes, as well as from bowel cancer, reveals research published online in the journal Gut. In particular, it ...

Fecal occult-blood testing (FOBT) is a noninvasive, effective means of screening for colorectal cancer (CRC). The SENSITIVITY of this technique is suboptimal, however, and identification of a simple, ...