fecal immunochemical test

fecal immunochemical test

ASGE Journal Scan | Kolon

Cancers Detected in Second-Round Fecal Immunochemical Test Screening Still Early Stage

The value of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening lies in CRC prevention through polyp detection and prevention of CRC mortality by early-stage CRC detection. Compared with

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ASGE Journal Scan | Kolon

Delay in Colonoscopy After Positive FIT May Be Lethal, Particularly in 40- to 49-Year-Olds

These data are from a population-based Chinese screening program involving 595,180 persons aged 40 to 74 years with 16 years of follow-up. There were 42,353

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ASGE Journal Scan | Kolon

Offering a Blood Test Increases CRC Screening in Patients Who Had Declined Colonoscopy and FIT

This was a randomized controlled trial in 359 veterans aged 50 to 75 years who had declined colonoscopy and a fecal immunochemical test (FIT) in

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ASGE Journal Scan | Kolon

FIT-Fecal DNA Test Had High Positive Predictive Value in Second-Round Screening

This study examined the positive predictive value (PPV) of a second round of screening with a fecal immunochemical test (FIT)-fecal DNA test (Cologuard, Exact Sciences).

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ASGE Journal Scan | Kolon

Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates Increased During the COVID Pandemic, but With Stool-based Tests, Not Colonoscopy

This report is from the National Health Interview Survey, an annual survey of U.S. households covering a wide range of health topics. Response rates were

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ASGE Journal Scan | Magen und Dünndarm

Is There an Increased Risk of Proximal Gastrointestinal Cancer After a Positive Fecal Immunochemical Test?

The fecal immunochemical test (FIT) is a simple, noninvasive, at-home study that detects blood in the stool and is used for colon cancer (CRC) screening

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ASGE Journal Scan | Kolon

ADR Works in FIT-Positive Populations: Target ADR Must Be Substantially Higher Than Primary Screening ADR

It is well known that the prevalence of adenomas is higher in patients with a positive result from a stool test, including both the fecal

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ASGE Journal Scan | Kolon

Dutch Describe Impact of Their National Biennial Fecal Immunochemical Test Screening Program

In 2014, the Netherlands instituted a national program of every-other-year fecal immunochemical test (FIT) screening for colorectal cancer (CRC). Since the start of screening, within

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ASGE Journal Scan | Kolon

Risk-Stratified CRC Screening Using Fecal Immunochemical Test and Stool DNA

This is a post hoc analysis of a risk-stratification screening strategy based on the Asia-Pacific Colorectal Screening (APCS) scoring system. This score ranks patients as

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ASGE Journal Scan | Kolon

Adenoma Detection Rate Says It All in FIT-Positive Patients

This is a study of detection indicators in 13,067 fecal immunochemical test (FIT)-positive colonoscopies performed by 80 community gastroenterologists. The cutoff for FIT positivity was

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ASGE Journal Scan | Kolon

Actual Impact of COVID-19 on CRC (8.7% Reduction) and Advanced Adenoma (26.9% Reduction) Diagnoses in a U.S. Health Care System

This study utilized the Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) health care system to evaluate the actual impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on colorectal cancer (CRC).

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ASGE Journal Scan | Kolon

Computer-Aided Detection Improves Adenoma Detection Rate and Adenomas Per Colonoscopy in Fecal Immunochemical Test-Positive Patients

In parallel-arm randomized trials involving mostly primary screening and surveillance colonoscopy patients, computer-aided detection (CADe) has increased the adenoma detection rate (ADR) by about 10%.

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ASGE Journal Scan | Kolon

Endocuff Vision Effective in “Real-World” Experience

Endocuff Vision (ECV; Olympus America, Center Valley, Pa) has produced adenoma detection rate (ADR) gains in randomized controlled trials, but it has not received widespread

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ASGE Journal Scan | Kolon

Protein Assays Added to the Fecal Immunochemical Test Improve Sensitivity for Advanced Adenomas

The fecal immunochemical test (FIT) is widely chosen by organized colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programs as the screening test of choice. FIT detects about 80%

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ASGE Journal Scan | Kolon

Bad Outcomes for Patients Not Undergoing Colonoscopy After Positive Fecal Immunochemical Test

In an Italian study using a fecal immunochemical test (FIT)-positivity cutoff of 20 µg Hb/g feces, 88,013 FIT-positive patients (79%) underwent colonoscopy, and 23,410 (21%)

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ASGE Journal Scan | Kolon

Adenoma Detection Rate Can Be Measured in Combined Screening, Surveillance, and Diagnostic Examinations

When the adenoma detection rate (ADR) was originally proposed as a quality measure in 2002, the recommendation did not constrain its indication to screening colonoscopies

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ASGE Journal Scan | Kolon

Screening With Fecal Immunochemical Test More Impactful for Distal Than Proximal Cancers

In a nationwide biennial fecal immunochemical test (FIT) screening program in Taiwan, more than 5.4 million individuals were invited to undergo screening between 2004 and

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