ASTEPHENS33 wrote:Has anyone used this/had experience with it, that they can share? Its called Colonguard - http://www.cancer.org/cancer/news/featu ... lon-cancer. A friend has it recommended to her. thanks
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...Screening with computed tomography (CT) colonography and multitargeted stool DNA (FIT-DNA) testing may be useful in select clinical circumstances. However, there is less mature evidence to support these methods, resulting in greater uncertainty about their net benefits and the most appropriate situations in which to use them.
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Ref: Imperiale TF, Ransohoff DF, Itzkowitz SH, Levin TR, Lavin P, Lidgard GP, et al. Multitarget stool DNA testing for colorectal-cancer screening. N Engl J Med. 2014;370(14):1287-97.
Jacques wrote:ASTEPHENS33 wrote:The task force apparently thinks that too many patients will be sent off to have a colonoscopy when this is not in fact necessary and it would put too many patients at additional risk of an unnecessary invasive procedure. Also, the FIT-DNA test is more expensive than the standard Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) stool test.
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