Dr. Sterling Bennett, the Medical Director of Intermountain Healthcare's Central lab is here to explain the Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT). A Fecal Immunochemical Test is meant to detect blood in a ...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends colorectal cancer screening for all adults starting at age 45. After age 75, the task force recommends talking with your health care team to decide ...

Some modern stool tests can detect around 92 percent of colorectal cancers. But colonoscopies can detect cancer -- and prevent it. Q: My doctor always encourages me to do a colonoscopy for colorectal ...

Commercial FITs can match NG-MSDT diagnostic results for CRC by lowering the positivity threshold, enhancing sensitivity while maintaining specificity. FITs are accessible, noninvasive CRC screening ...

No one wants a colonoscopy. But there's no getting around the lifesaving procedure -- the gold standard for colon cancer detection. With the development of the FIT test, or fecal immunochemical test, ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 74-year-old male, and I recently received a negative result from my mail-in fecal test. I have been on an every-five-years colonoscopy cycle for the past 20 years (noncancerous ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results obtained through fecal immunochemical tests and levels of fecal calprotectin could help identify ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- A study of more than 21,000 average risk patients at 186 sites across the U.S., led by Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine research scientist Thomas ...