I have always considered home guaiac testing weird. I’m not exactly prudish or shy about things that come out of our bodies, being a medical practitioner and all, but I dreaded completing a home ...

The number of colonoscopies needed to detect one person with advanced neoplasia was 5.1 for guaiac-positive patients but only 2.7 for immunochemical-test–positive patients. Colonoscopy revealed ...

TESTS for blood in the stool vary in sensitivity; it is generally agreed that the unmodified benzidine test gives a positive reaction if the patient has eaten meat, but the guaiac test is not ...

We investigated variations in sensitivity of an immunochemical (I-FOBT) and a guaiac (G-FOBT) faecal occult blood test according to type and location of lesions in an average-risk 50- to 74-year-old ...

This article is intended chiefly as a review of the one contributed by Dr. Whitney to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Jan. 18, 1909, in which it is stated that the guaiac test was not a test ...

EMBARGO: 00:01H (London time) Friday January 6, 2006. In North America the embargo lifts at 6:30pm ET Thursday January 5, 2006. Use of a simple test, in addition to traditional screening tests, ...

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In this study, the performance characteristics of the immunochemical test were superior to those of the Hemoccult II guaiac-based test. Note, however, that Hemoccult II is less sensitive than the ...