August 22, 2018

Bowel Cancer NZ News

Bowel screening information should tell people how to get their actual reading, Bowel Cancer New Zealand says.

Results from the programme’s initial test, the faecal immunochemical test (FIT), are routinely reported as positive or negative with participants and their family doctors not advised if traces of blood are found below the 200 ng haemoglobin/ml buffer solution threshold which would trigger referral to colonoscopy.

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