Annual FIT Testing Detects Colorectal Cancer Two Years Earlier Than Colonoscopy Alone, Study Of High Risk Population Finds

An interim analysis of a study presented at the 39th Annual Digestive Disease Week (DDW) Conference found that, among patients at increased risk for colorectal cancer who completed an annual fecal immunochemical (FIT) test, detection of cancerous lesions occurred an average of 26.5 months earlier than would have occurred during the three- or five-year study-required colonoscopy. Detection of precancerous lesions in this group occurred 18.4 months earlier.

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Filed under: Colorectal Cancer on June 1st, 2008