Fecal Immunochemical Tests Compared with Guaiac Fecal Occult Blood Tests for Population-Based Colorectal Cancer Screening [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2012 Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in Canadian men and women – accounting for almost 12% of all cancer deaths. In Ontario, it is estimated that 8100 persons were diagnosed with CRC in 2011, and 3250 died from the ...
Linda Rabeneck +8 more
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Interval Colorectal Cancers following Guaiac Fecal Occult Blood Testing in the Ontario ColonCancerCheck Program [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2016 Background. This work examines the occurrence of interval colorectal cancers (CRCs) in the Ontario ColonCancerCheck (CCC) program. We define interval CRC as CRC diagnosed within 2 years following normal guaiac fecal occult blood testing (gFOBT). Methods.
Lawrence Paszat +4 more
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Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology, 2015 Salah H Elsafi,1 Norah I Alqahtani,1 Nawaf Y Zakary,2 Eidan M Al Zahrani,3 1Clinical Laboratory Science Department, Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran, 2Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Unit, Internal Medicine Department, King Fahd ...
Elsafi SH +3 more
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Colorectal cancer screening and incidence and mortality of colorectal and other cancers in the United Kingdom. [PDF]
J Intern MedJournal of Internal Medicine, Volume 299, Issue 5, Page 639-642, May 2026.
Mandic M +3 more
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Reply: On Gender-Specific FIT Cutoffs in the Swedish Colorectal Cancer Screening Program. [PDF]
United European Gastroenterol JUnited European Gastroenterology Journal, Volume 14, Issue 1, February 2026.
Hreinsson JP, Pålsson B, Blom J.
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From Praising the Remedy to Eulogising the Patient: Cristóbal de Castillejo’s Satire of Guaiac in Early Modern Spain [PDF]
, 2023 The article examines the contemporary satiric treatment of a new transatlantic drug, guaiac, in a sixteenth-century poem by the Castilian writer Cristóbal de Castillejo, entitled En alabança del palo de las Indias, estando en la cura dél (In Praise of ...
Bičak, Ivana, Ivana Bičak
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Population screening for colorectal cancer means getting FIT:the past, present, and future of colorectal cancer screening using the fecal immunochemical test for hemoglobin (FIT) [PDF]
, 2014 Fecal immunochemical tests for hemoglobin (FIT) are changing the manner in which colorectal cancer (CRC) is screened. Although these tests are being performed worldwide, why is this test different from its predecessors?
Halloran, SP +7 more
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Decision analytic models, sensitivity analysis and value of information in economic evaluations in health care [PDF]
, 2010 Economic evaluations of health care technologies are now commonly carried out to assess the economic value of new pharmaceuticals, medical devices and procedures.
Bischof, Matthias
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Fecal Occult Blood Test and Gastrointestinal Parasitic Infection
Journal of Parasitology Research, 2010 Stool specimens of 1238 workers in western region of Saudi Arabia were examined for infection with intestinal parasites and for fecal occult blood (FOB) to investigate the possibility that enteroparasites correlate to occult intestinal bleeding.
Majed H. Wakid
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