A Prospective Study of a New Immunochemical Fecal Occult Blood Test in U.S. Veteran Patients Undergoing Colonoscopy

Status unconfirmed

Conditions studied: Colon Cancer

In brief

The purpose of our study is to evaluate the diagnostic validity of a new immunofecal occult blood test (IFOBT) (Teco Diagnostics) in U.S. veterans and to compare it with the guaiac based FOBT.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00533975

Run by

University of California, San Diego

People needed

500

Starts

2007-09-01

Expected to finish

2008-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2007-09-24

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients (men or women) that are >18 years of age undergoing colonoscopy for a variety of indications (bleeding, diarrhea, weight loss, anemia, abdominal pain, etc)

You may not qualify if…

• concurrent hospitalization
• visible rectal bleeding
• known diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease
• hematuria
• menstruation at the time of obtaining a stool specimen and performing the tests
• inability to prepare the 3 different IFOBT or 3 different FOBT kits

Where it is running

• Veteran Affairs Medical Center San Diego — San Diego, California, United States

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