A new study from Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente found that patients who receive a positive fecal test often delay undergoing colonoscopy – the recommended procedure following a positive ...

A study of 316,443 patients shows that 7.4% of these patients repeated fecal testing rather than proceeding directly to colonoscopy as guidelines recommend, and of those who repeated home tests ...

The study was conducted at 81 U.S. sites and was sponsored by the developer of the fecal DNA test used in the study. Colonoscopy revealed 31 invasive cancers and 403 advanced adenomas. The DNA ...

Medically reviewed by Elizabeth Barnes, RDN Paradoxical diarrhea (overflow diarrhea) occurs when watery stools gush around a ...