Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Interval FIT was positive in 14% to 17% of patients after colonoscopy, regardless of polypectomy history. High ...

FIT checks for blood in the stool, which can indicate the presence of colorectal cancer or polyps. Patients collect stool ...

Ulcerative colitis patients who discontinued 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) monotherapy have an increased risk of relapse, ...

Dr. Douglas Corley: “With this study we have strong evidence that a colonoscopy should be performed within several months of a positive fecal screening test.” Minnesota news you can count on. From ...

A study published in Gut examined whether annual fecal immunochemical testing could reduce reliance on surveillance colonoscopy. Researchers recruited immediate risk patients (between 60- and 72-years ...

Researchers compared risk ratios for differences in colorectal neoplasia detection rates between FIT and colonoscopy groups using the PubMed, Embase and National Health Services Economic Evaluation ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- With recent studies showing a greater incidence of colorectal cancer among younger patients, doctors advise us all to pay closer attention to our bodies, what we put into them, ...

Certain barriers to colonoscopy completion among patients with abnormal fecal immunochemical test (FIT) results may be modifiable, a survey of healthcare workers at a safety net health system ...

Adenoma detection rate (ADR) targets for endoscopists performing colonoscopy after a positive fecal immunochemical test (FIT) should be markedly higher compared with ADR targets used in primary ...

A fecal immunochemical test (FIT) conducted 2 years apart could form the basis for population-based colorectal cancer screening if this approach goes on to show a mortality benefit, according to a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Yoon Suk Jung, MD, PhD, of the division of gastroenterology at Kangbuk Samsung Hospital in South Korea, and ...

In its latest recommendations, the US Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer Screening confirms that people at average risk should be screened beginning at age 50, and recommends colonoscopy ...