--Exact Sciences Corp. today highlights data from one oral and one poster presentation being featured at the 2021 Digestive Disease Week ® virtual annual meeting, taking place May 21-23. Notably ...

Fecal immunochemical testing (FIT), which detects blood from the GI tract. You could get a FIT test on your own over-the-counter, online or through your doctor.

Study participants who were aware of stool-based tests were two times more likely to prefer mt-sDNA over FIT/FOBT, and those who had previously had a stool-based test were 2.8 times more likely to ...

CORTLANDT MANOR, N.Y., Feb. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent study published in the JAMA Network Open demonstrates that annual FIT testing is more effective than both triannual blood-based tests ...

A brief research report compared screening costs per early-detected colorectal cancer (CRC) case among fecal immunochemical tests (FIT), multitarget stool DNA tests (MSDT) and next-generation ...

Fecal immunochemical testing, which tests for human blood in a patient’s stool, is now available as a take-home test from Life Line Screening, according to a company news release. The test requires no ...

Commercial fecal immunochemical tests (FIT) could achieve similar diagnostic results compared with the new stool DNA test, which is in line with the first generation of stool DNA and multitarget ...

For the study, Nicholas Clarke, Ph.D., of Dublin City University in Ireland, surveyed individuals in Dublin who had been invited to participate in a FIT screening program in 2008–2012.

Commonly used fecal immunochemical tests vary in their performance, which has implications for the benefits and cost-effectiveness of FIT-based CRC screening programs.

The risk of detecting colorectal cancer (CRC) increases by up to 13-fold in the presence of prior fecal hemoglobin (f-Hb) concentrations in fecal immunochemical tests (FIT), especially negative ...