Occult blood screening obstacles to effectiveness

Screening for Colorectal Cancer

1990 • 1,233 citations

Vital Statistics of the United States 1937

1940 • 464 citations

Textbook of Gastroenterology

1991 • 363 citations

RANDOMISED, CONTROLLED TRIAL OF FAECAL OCCULT BLOOD SCREENING FOR COLORECTAL CANCER

1989 • 353 citations

Adenomatous lesions of the large bowel:An autopsy survey

1979 • 339 citations

Occult blood screening for colorectal carcinoma: A critical review

1985 • 338 citations

Relationship Between Patterns of Bleeding and Hemoccult Sensitivity in Patients with Colorectal Cancers or Adenomas

1982 • 302 citations

A-DETERMINANT, Y-DETERMINANT AND D-DETERMINANT IN LIVER-CELLS OF HBSAG CARRIERS

1976 • 242 citations

The Prevalence of Cancer

1986 • 218 citations

Screening and rescreening for colorectal cancer. A controlled trial of fecal occult blood testing in 27,700 subjects

1988 • 217 citations

Occult blood testing for detection of asymptomatic colon cancer

1971 • 210 citations

Screening for colorectal cancer in a high-risk population

1987 • 208 citations

Screening and rescreening for colorectal cancer. A controlled trial of fecal occult blood testing in 27,700 subjects

1988 • 181 citations

Fecal Blood Levels in Health and Disease

1985 • 179 citations

The earlier detection of colorectal cancers. A preliminary report of the results of the occult blood study

1980 • 178 citations

False-Negative Stool Occult Blood Tests Caused by Ingestion of Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C)

1975 • 168 citations

Repeated Screening for Colorectal Cancer with Fecal Occult Blood Test: A Prospective Randomized Study at Funen, Denmark

1989 • 150 citations

FACTORS INFLUENCING MORTALITY AFTER CURATIVE RESECTION FOR LARGE BOWEL CANCER IN ELDERLY PATIENTS

1989 • 149 citations

Adenomatous Polypi of Large Intestine

1963 • 142 citations

Sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictivity of the Hemoccult test in screening for colorectal cancers

1989 • 131 citations

Hemoccult Screening in Detecting Colorectal Neoplasm: Sensitivity, Specificity, and Predictive Value

1990 • 127 citations

Perspectives on Prevention and Treatment of Cancer in the Elderly.

1984 • 117 citations

Immunochemical detection of fecal occult blood –. The fecal smear punch-disc test: A new non-invasive screening test for colorectal cancer

1980 • 114 citations

1989 survey of physicians' attitudes and practices in early cancer detection

1990 • 114 citations

Comparing benefits and harms: the balance sheet

1990 • 113 citations

Patterns of occult bleeding in asymptomatic colorectal cancer

1990 • 105 citations

Sensitivity and reproducibility of chemical tests for fecal occult blood with an emphasis on false-positive reactions

1973 • 102 citations

Occult Blood Screening for Colorectal Cancer

1989 • 96 citations

Fecal Blood Loss in Patients With Colonic Polyps: A Comparison of Measurements With 51Chromium-Labeled Erythrocytes and With the Haemoccult Test

1982 • 95 citations

Bleeding patterns in colorectal cancer: The effect of aspirin and the implications for faecal occult blood testing

1982 • 92 citations

Hemoccult detection of fecal occult blood quantitated by radioassay

1976 • 82 citations

HemoQuant, A New Quantitative Assay for Fecal Hemoglobin

1984 • 77 citations

Small Adenomas Detected During Fecal Occult Blood Test Screening for Colorectal Cancer

1990 • 71 citations

Comparing Benefits and Harms: The Balance Sheet

1990 • 70 citations

Cancer morbidity in urban and rural Iowa.

1956 • 66 citations

Randomised trial of compliance with screening for colorectal cancer.

1986 • 61 citations

Comparative educational approaches to screening for colorectal cancer.

1978 • 59 citations

Resection for colorectal cancer in the very old: are the risks too high?

1988 • 56 citations

Sensitivity of Guaiac-Impregnated Cards for the Detection of Colorectal Neoplasi

1983 • 55 citations

Immunochemical confirmation of gastrointestinal bleeding.

1974 • 54 citations

Relative sensitivity of the fecal occult blood test and flexible sigmoidoscopy in detecting polyps

1985 • 46 citations

Compliance with Colorectal Cancer Screening in a High-Risk Occupational Group

1989 • 46 citations

False-negative results of Hemoccult test in colorectal cancer.

1981 • 45 citations

Sensitivity of Fecal Hemoccult Testing and Flexible Sigmoidoscopy for Colorectal Cancer Screening

1986 • 43 citations

Screening for gastrointestinal cancer

1995 • 40 citations

A Stool Collection Device: The First Step in Occult Blood Testing

1988 • 40 citations

Occult-Blood Screening for Colorectal Carcinoma: The Yield and the Costs

1985 • 37 citations

US Preventive Services Task Force. Occult blood screening for colorectal cancer

1989 • 36 citations

Patient compliance with self-directed hemoccult testing

1982 • 35 citations

Nonuniform Distribution of Occult Blood in Feces

1979 • 35 citations

Hemoccult stool tests: false-negative results due to storage of specimens.

1976 • 34 citations

Accuracy of occult blood tests over a six-day period.

1983 • 33 citations

Patient's and doctor's delay in carcinoma of the colon and rectum

1986 • 33 citations

Occult-Blood Screening for Colorectal Carcinoma: The Risks

1985 • 30 citations

Colorectal cancer detection in the practice setting. Impact of fecal blood testing

1990 • 25 citations

Measurement of degraded fecal hemoglobin-heme to estimate gastrointestinal site of occult bleeding appraisal of its clinical utility

1988 • 23 citations

Mass screening for colorectal cancer

1989 • 23 citations

A Screening Primer

1983 • 22 citations

Occult-Blood Screening for Colorectal Carcinoma: The Benefits

1985 • 20 citations

Is screening for colorectal cancer worthwhile?

1990 • 19 citations

Anterior resection for adenocarcinoma of the distal large bowel

1980 • 19 citations

Results of a repeat television-advertised mass screening program for colorectal cancer using fecal occult blood tests.

1990 • 17 citations

Colorectal Cancer Detection in the Practice Setting

1990 • 12 citations

Colorectal cancer: implications of mass screening for public health

1990 • 12 citations