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.

These include fecal occult blood testing and multi-target stool DNA tests, which examine stool samples for signs of ...

Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of cancer deaths in people under 50. Between March 16-31, get a free home screening kit ...

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and the recent passing of a very good friend, superb vascular surgeon and wonderful, kind and funny man from this scourge has focused my attention of late.

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (WBNG) -- March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and experts recommend getting screened for the disease if you are 45 years old. According to the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, one ...

People can get a free screening kit for colon cancer in the month of March. In support of Colon Cancer Awareness Month CentraCare is offering the free kits.

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 ...

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the U.S. and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among ...

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 ...