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- Title
Screening: Early alert.
- Authors
Willyard, Cassandra
- Abstract
The article focuses on the development of alternative colorectal cancer screening tests and the difficulty of getting patients to be screened for colorectal cancer. It states the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the colorectal cancer screening test Cologuard in mid-2014 which combines a faecal immunochemical test with an analysis to detect mutations in the KRAS gene which is often mutated in colorectal cancer. It mentions the use of colonoscopies and sigmoidoscopy in cancer screening.
- Subjects
EARLY detection of cancer; COLON cancer diagnosis; GENETICS of colon cancer; FECAL occult blood tests; COLONOSCOPY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; BIOMARKERS
- Publication
Nature, 2015, Vol 521, Issue 7551, pS4
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/521S4a