Patient-reported outcome measures show FIT as an acceptable investigation to rule out colorectal cancer in the two-week wait cohort

CONCLUSIONS: Symptomatic patients can perform FIT with little difficulty, and often would have been happy to avoid conventional colonic investigations with a negative result. However, shared decision-making should be employed to identify those who would be dissatisfied with relying on FIT for further investigation decisions.PMID:35639078 | DOI:10.1308/rcsann.2022.0025

Source: Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England - May 31, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: W Maclean M B Whyte N Farkas S C Benton T Rockall I Jourdan Source Type: research