Screening of colorectal cancer by fecal occult blood testing. Usefulness of immunological test.
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Screening for colorectal cancer with fecal occult blood testing.
153 SCREENING FOR COLORECTAL CANCER WITH FECAL OCCULT BLOOD TESTING AND COLONOSCOPY: CORRELATION OF CLINICAL DATA, SITE, SIZE AND DISEASE’S STAGE Iuliana Taraşi, Gabriela Florenţa Dumitrescu, Anca Indrei, P. Plămădeală, Anca Trifan, C. Stanciu, 1 Departament of Gastroenterology, „St. Spiridon” Emergency Clinical Hospital Iaşi 2 Department of Pathology, „Prof. Dr. N. Oblu” Emergency Clinical Hos...
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Screening for early detection of colorectal cancer using fecal occult blood testing has been shown to be effective in reducing mortality from this disease. The largest Health Maintenance Organization in Israel initiated the use of Hemoccult Sensa in 1992 to evaluate the field performance of this test. All primary care physicians were invited to order home-based tests for their asymptomatic pati...
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Colorectal cancer represents the second most frequent neoplasia in mortality statistics of western countries. In Europe in 1996, there were 213111 cases and 110669 deaths from colorectal cancer (Table 1) [1]. The trend in incidence from 1970 projected to 2006 (R. Capocaccia and A. Verdecchia, personal communication) shows a steady increase in all European countries, whereas in the USA there has...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nippon Daicho Komonbyo Gakkai Zasshi
سال: 1986
ISSN: 1882-9619,0047-1801
DOI: 10.3862/jcoloproctology.39.721