Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a significant public health concern worldwide. Early detection and treatment of CRC can improve patient outcomes and reduce the disease burden. The fecal immunochemical test ...

Contextual socio-economic factors, health-care access, and general practitioner (GP) involvement may influence colonoscopy uptake and its timing after positive faecal occult blood testing (FOBT). Our ...

Bowel cancer is a serious health burden and its early diagnosis improves survival. The Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) in England screens with the Faecal Occult Blood test (FOBt), followed by ...

Mass screening for colorectal cancer in France was initiated in pilot regions on the basis of the fecal occult blood test (FOBT) followed by colonoscopy in positive cases. We report the colonoscopy ...

The devastating statistics about deaths from colon cancer have put the spotlight on a dreaded disease, which, today, could be ...

Virtual colonoscopy is nearly as accurate as the real thing, and both methods far outperform three other standard screening methods for colon cancer, German researchers report. Their study of more ...

Physicians should screen for colorectal cancer in asymptomatic, low-risk adults aged 50 to 74 years every two years using fecal occult blood testing (FOBT), or flexible sigmoidoscopy every 10 years, ...

Expensive colonoscopies that cost a patient over $1,000 on average could soon be replaced by simpler and much cheaper tests as non-invasive screening options become more available and more ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The prevalence of adenomas or cancer was found to be low among asymptomatic patients with average risk for ...

The incremental cost per life-year saved by flexible sigmoidoscopy screening was A$16 801 compared with no screening, which is considered cost-effective in terms of health interventions. A figure of ...

CTC (virtual colonoscopy) is a thin slice CT scan of the abdomen after adequate bowel preparation and colon insufflation in which data are reconstructed providing axial, multiplanar, and endoluminal ...