Doctors check poop for DNA as part of the screening process for colorectal cancer. It helps doctors diagnose people with this disease during its early stages or even when the cells are precancerous.

Learn how stool appearance can signal colon cancer. Recognize signs like ribbon-like and pebble-shaped stools, and understand ...

A fecal lactoferrin test can detect intestinal inflammation. High lactoferrin levels in stool suggest that inflammation is present. This may indicate a bacterial infection or inflammatory bowel ...

ORLANDO -- Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) reported mostly favorable responses with the use of mail-order kits for stool sample collections, according to a survey study. Among survey ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- A study of more than 21,000 average risk patients at 186 sites across the U.S., led by Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine research scientist Thomas ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The inexpensive stool tests commonly used to screen for colon cancer can be more effective, and much less costly, than newer tests that look for certain genetic markers in ...

What Are At-Home Colon Cancer Tests? The gold standard screening test for cancer in your colon or rectum, colorectal cancer, is a colonoscopy. This is done at a doctor's office under sedation, after a ...

Gastroenterology specialists Dr Andy Li and Dr Jessica Gurung outline a rational approach to investigating recurrent ...

Routine Clinitest screening of stools from high-risk infants has been advocated. [6,7,8] A study of healthy full-term infants found that stool Clinitest was 2+ or greater (equivalent to ≥ 0.75% ...