This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Faecal occult blood positive' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications.

Colorectal neoplasia causes bleeding, enabling detection using Faecal Occult Blood tests (FOBt). The National Health Service (NHS) Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) guaiac-based FOBt (gFOBt) ...

This multicentric study involved four CRC population-based screening programmes of Northern (Alto Vicentino, Bussolengo and Feltre Local Health Units) and Central Italy (Florence ISPO Cancer ...

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Background: Abdominal complaints are common reasons for contacting primary care physicians, and it can be challenging for general practitioners (GPs) to identify patients with suspected colorectal ...

In the UK, compliance with conventional faecal occult blood (FOB) tests such as HaemoccultR is about 50% in the general population. It has been postulated that characteristics of the performance of ...

A stool test may be used to diagnose the presence or absence of a number of medical conditions. Faecal matter may be subjected to occult blood tests, microbiology tests, and chemical tests. Occult ...

While screening for colorectal cancer did not, so far, reduce mortality, it did reduce the need for chemotherapy and emergency surgeries among male patients. Colorectal cancer is the third most common ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Immunochemical faecal occult blood tests (iFOBTs) have been shown to have higher sensitivity to detect colorectal cancer (CRC) and its ...

Faecal occult blood tests is a term used to describe both traditional manual guaiac faecal occult blood tests and automated faecal immunochemical tests. Faecal immunochemical tests have been developed ...

Faecal occult blood tests could be used to stratify patients' risk of developing colorectal cancer into low, medium or high risk, a new study suggests. Researchers carried out a prospective cohort ...