An at-home stool test may be as effective as colonoscopy, study finds. - NBCNewsHealth
Despite that recommendation, it’s unlikely that any insurer will pay for a colonoscopy for younger patients, Imperiale said. For those patients, “using FIT to screen makes sense: it is zero risk from the test itself, is non-invasive, inexpensive, and will detect at least three of four cancers in the first application,” he added.
In the study, Imperiale and his colleagues determined that when the FIT was set to be more sensitive, the test caught 95 percent of cancers, but resulted in 10 percent false positives. At a less sensitive setting, the FIT caught 75 percent of cancers but had just 5 percent false positives. Experts cautioned that while the FIT was less invasive, patients might not follow recommendations to get tested each year.
FIT has the possibility to increase screening rates, “so long as we create the infrastructure to do so in a high-quality way,” Schnoll-Sussman said in an email.
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