Lowering the positivity threshold for a high-quality fecal immunochemical test (FIT) can increase sensitivity of noninvasive screening for colorectal cancer in a more economical way. FITs are ...

The established screening tools were colonoscopy, a fecal immunochemical test (FIT), and a multitarget stool DNA test (MT-sDNA, Exact Sciences Cologuard). The four emerging screening methods were ...

MAILED fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) kits using centralized outreach significantly increases colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates in underserved communities, according to the results of a new ...

Intestinal parasites are not typically diagnosed by seeing them in the fecal sample. Instead, your veterinarian will likely send the sample out for microscopic and PCR (DNA testing) for several ...

All eligible individuals were asked to provide one or two FITs on stool from ... reference test, sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value (PPV and NPV) of FIT were ...

A new study from Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente found that patients who receive a positive fecal test often delay undergoing colonoscopy – the recommended procedure following a positive ...

Find out more about how we test. There’s a lot in a name. The sharp-minded among you may have realised that a pair of earbuds with the word ‘fit’ in the title are serving up a rather droll double ...