A test for fecal occult blood looks for blood in your poop, or feces. It can be a sign of a problem in your digestive system, such as a growth, or polyp, or cancer in the colon or rectum.

Fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) has been proposed as an alternative to colonoscopic screening for the detection of colorectal cancer, but requires multiple stool samples because occult bleeding ...

fecal lactoferrin and the guaiac-based fecal occult blood test (FOBT). Stool samples from 2,185 patients with acute diarrhea were analyzed by performing cultures for the identification of ...

Clark, MD, Kathleen G. Benjamin, RNC, MSN, NNP Echevarria Ybarguengoitia, using bililabstix to prospectively evaluate occult hematochezia in 300 premature newborns, reported a 0.47% incidence of ...