Eating black pudding may interfere with a screening test for colorectal cancer, claim researchers in this week's Christmas issue of the BMJ. The Haemoccult test is widely used to screen for colorectal ...

Screening for bowel cancer can save lives - but what kind of screening tests are best? It all depends on how at-risk you are. Published 21/04/2005 There's a lot you can do to help prevent bowel cancer ...

We investigated variations in sensitivity of an immunochemical (I-FOBT) and a guaiac (G-FOBT) faecal occult blood test according to type and location of lesions in an average-risk 50- to 74-year-old ...

The detection of hidden blood in the stool is an important part of the early detection of colorectal cancer. Scientists have now shown that a number of immunological tests are significantly superior ...

Colorectal cancer is one of the highest causes of cancer deaths in many countries (Schottenfeld and Winawer, 1996). Accordingly, prevention is an issue of global importance. Although colorectal cancer ...

A large portion of the almost 73,000 colorectal cancers diagnosed in Germany each year could be avoided. If precancerous lesions – growths of the intestinal mucosa called adenomas – are detected and ...