Colorectal cancer is an important health problem in western countries. Early detection of colorectal cancer reduces mortality. The best evidence for the effectiveness of screening for colorectal cancer is with annual or biennial fecal occult blood testing. While the benefit of fecal occult blood testing is small in absolute terms, the incremental cost-effectiveness of this screening strategy ap...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of screening programmes for colorectal cancer in Italy. DESIGN; We compared five types of programmes: annual faecal occult blood testing, sigmoidoscopy (every 5 years), faecal occult blood testing plus sigmoidoscopy (every 1 and 5 years), colonoscopy (every 10 years) (all in the age group 55-69 years, last examination at 70 years) and...

Colorectal carcinoma (CRC) is the third most common cancer worldwide and ranks second as a cause of mortality. CRC screening carried out in many countries for detection early-stage its prevention by removing precancerous lesions, includes fecal occult blood testing colonoscopy. Different use their own approach to screening, including methods blood. The strategy based on fact that already early ...

Objective. To determine the prevalence of occult HIV infection in patients who decline routine HIV testing in an urban emergency department. Design, Setting, and Patients. Discarded blood samples were obtained from patients who had declined routine ED HIV testing. After insuring that the samples came from patients not known to be HIV positive, they were deidentified, and rapid HIV testing was p...

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