Faecal Occult Blood Test
A randomised controlled trial of personalised decision support delivered via the internet for bowel cancer screening with a faecal occult blood test: the effects of tailoring of messages according to social cognitive variables on participation
... a faecal occult blood test (FOBT) in accordance with recommended guidelines reduces bowel cancer mortality [2-4] and potentially incidence, although lowered incidence rates from use of FOBT ...
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Colorectal cancer mortality 10 years after a single round of guaiac faecal occult blood test (gFOBT) screening: experiences from a Danish screening cohort
... guaiac faecal occult blood test (gFOBT) screening can reduce CRC mortality, but a recent large randomised study from Finland did not find any ...
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Guaiac faecal occult blood test performance at initial and repeat screens in the English Bowel Cancer Screening Programme
... Decreases in detection rates and PPV at the repeat screen may be due to the initial screen reducing the prevalence of CRC and high-risk adenomas among people attending for repeat screening, without reducing the ...
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Accuracy of faecal occult blood test and Helicobacter pylori stool antigen test for detection of upper gastrointestinal lesions
... 1-day test was also an ...guaiac-based test for detecting upper gastrointestinal lesions as occult blood was more likely intermittent and unevenly distribu- ted in the stool, requiring ...
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Effectiveness of screening for colorectal cancer with a faecal occult blood test, in Finland
... meat, blood and liver dishes 3 days before sample-taking and during the time of ...used. Test cards were returned by mail to be analysed at the national screening centre at Pirkanmaa Cancer Society in ...of ...
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Immunochemical Faecal Occult Blood Test for Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review
... peroxidise activity of haemoglobin, has important limitations. It is not specific for human haemoglobin and false positive and false negative results can result from certain compounds or medications in food such as red ...
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South Asian Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Psychological Mediators of Faecal Occult Blood Colorectal Screening Participation: A Prospective Test of a Process Model
... to test a process model evaluating the role of socio-economic status and psychological variables in mediating effects of ethnicity on objectively-observed faecal occult blood test ...
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Colonoscopy-related complications in a nationwide immunochemical fecal occult blood test-based colorectal cancer screening program
... guaiac-based faecal occult blood test screening program in France in 2003–2010, including 10,277 colonoscopies, identified a much higher incidence ...
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Validation of serrated polyps (SPs) in Swedish pathology registers
... Most individuals underwent endoscopy for clinical symp- toms ( n = 64, 60%) (Table 4). For individuals with symp- tomatic indications and SP as their only significant endoscopic finding ( n = 28), the most frequent ...
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The National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: time to achieve its potential to save lives
... (occult) blood in the stool was long conceived as a simple, non-invasive means of detecting cancer (and advanced adenomatous ...the faecal occult blood test (FOBT) were performed ...
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Using resource modelling to inform decision making and service planning: the case of colorectal cancer screening in Ireland
... and faecal tests (such as the guaiac-based faecal occult blood (gFOBT) and faecal immunochemical test ...Each test has its own strengths and limitations ...
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Could stool collection devices help increase uptake to bowel cancer screening programmes?
... dispatching repeat test kits for participants requiring additional testing due to weak positive results. Current screening practice utilises the guaiac faecal occult blood process. ...
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Cost-effectiveness of population-based screening for colorectal cancer: a comparison of guaiac-based faecal occult blood testing, faecal immunochemical testing and flexible sigmoidoscopy
... We chose to evaluate a strategy that combined gFOBT with reflex FIT, instead of the more conventional approach of reflex gFOBT. This was because second-line FIT has been shown to limit the number of colposcopy referrals ...
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Using resource modelling to inform decision making and service planning: The case of colorectal cancer screening in Ireland
... and faecal tests (such as the guaiac-based faecal occult blood (gFOBT) and faecal immunochemical test ...Each test has its own strengths and limitations ...
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Using resource modelling to inform decision making and service planning: the case of colorectal cancer screening in Ireland
... and faecal tests (such as the guaiac-based faecal occult blood (gFOBT) and faecal immunochemical test ...Each test has its own strengths and limitations ...
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Dietary interventions for fecal occult blood test screening
... words occult blood, fecal occult blood, or faecal occult blood and either the MeSH headings colonic neo- plasms/prevention and control or diet or the key words meat, ...
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The sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, and likelihood ratios of fecal occult blood test for the detection of colorectal cancer in hospital settings
... fecal occult blood tests for the detection of CRC among patients of 50–74 years old attending two hospitals in the Eastern Region of Saudi ...guaiac-based occult blood test and ...
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Occult Hepatitis B virus infection in previously screened, blood donors in Ile Ife, Nigeria: implications for blood transfusion and stem cell transplantation
... tween occult HBV and the variables tested such as age, sex, alcohol use, smoking, sharing of sharps scarification marks/tattoos and number of lifetime sexual ...
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Role of stool screening tests in diagnosis of inflammatory bacterial enteritis and in selection of specimens likely to yield invasive enteric pathogens
... sheep blood agar, Campy blood agar, Hektoen enteric (HE) agar, xylose lysine deaminase (XLD) agar, and gram-negative (GN) broth, and a formalin-ethyl acetate concentrate was ...Campy blood agar ...
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Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Comprehensive Review to Recent Non-invasive Methods
... Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide and considered to be one of the hassle in medical communities. CRC develops from precancerous polyps in the colon or rectum and is preventable and ...
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