Green-coloured results on guaiac-based faecal occult blood testing should be considered positive
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Guaiac based faecal occult blood testing for colorectal cancer screening: an obsolete strategy?
The recent paper by Scholefield and colleagues on the 20 year follow-up of the ‘Nottingham’ randomised controlled trial of guaiac based faecal occult blood test (gFOBT) colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, reports an intention to screen benefit of 13% reduced mortality from CRC and a participant benefit of 18% reduction, in spite of offering only biennial screening and with only 60% first round p...
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BACKGROUND Screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) is widely accepted, but there is no consensus on the preferred strategy. We conducted a randomised trial comparing participation and detection rates (DR) per screenee of guaiac-based faecal occult blood test (gFOBT), immunochemical FOBT (FIT), and flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS) for CRC screening. METHODS A representative sample of the Dutch popula...
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BACKGROUND Guaiac-based faecal occult blood tests (g-FOBTs) are most commonly used in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programmes. Faecal immunochemical tests (FITs) are thought to be superior. AIM To compare performance of a g-FOBT and a quantitative FIT for detection of CRCs and advanced adenomas in a colonoscopy-controlled population. METHODS We assessed sensitivity and specificity of b...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Clinical Biochemistry: International Journal of Laboratory Medicine
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0004-5632,1758-1001
DOI: 10.1258/0004563053857833