Background: Current guidelines for screening of colorectal cancer do not offer specific recommendations for cessation of antithrombotic agents prior to fecal occult blood test (FOBT). Aim ...

Area residents may contact TCMH for a free colon cancer screening kit through Friday, March 28. The screening includes a fecal occult blood test kit for individuals over 45 or for ...

[19] This study was limited by failure to establish the reliability of the bililabstix as a test for occult blood, failure to blind the test results, and retrospective patient classification.

The company hopes that its noninvasive assay is easier to use than stool-based fecal occult blood tests (FOBTs), currently the mainstay for early detection, but it does not see it replacing ...