In total, 1214 patients were approached, 134 were ineligible, 344 deferred participation and 133 refused participation, leaving 602 subjects who were recruited for the study. The first 30 interviews ...

More than 75 percent of primary care physicians in the United States who order or perform the fecal occult blood test as a screening option for colorectal cancer perform an in-office test rather than ...

In an earlier survey, using a Vietnamese-language version of the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), 35 % of eligible men and 38 % of eligible women had had a fecal occult blood ...

For patients with a positive fecal occult blood test in a cohort study, those who did not undergo a follow-up colonoscopy had an increased incidence of colorectal cancer. Those who underwent ...