Quantitative Immunochemical Fecal Occult Blood Test for Diagnosing Colorectal Neoplasia
Authors: Yogesh M. Shastri, Jürgen Stein
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (2007)

Letters2 October 2007Quantitative Immunochemical Fecal Occult Blood Test for Diagnosing Colorectal NeoplasiaYogesh M. Shastri, MD, DNB and Jürgen Stein, MD, PhDYogesh M. Shastri, MD, DNBFrom Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.Search for more papers by this author and Jürgen Stein, MD, PhDFrom Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-147-7-200710020-00020 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail TO THE EDITOR:We read with great interest Levi and colleagues' article on quantitative immunochemical fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) for diagnosing colorectal neoplasia (1), and we congratulate the authors on a nice piece of work. They have introduced a unique concept of offering an option with different positivity thresholds for performing quantitative immunochemical FOBTs.In the introduction of their article, the authors mentioned that no English-language study has systematically compared colonoscopy with the fecal immunochemical method for diagnosing colorectal neoplasia. However, our group published such a study in 2006 (2).In our study, 389 patients from 4 centers in ...References1. Levi Z, Rozen P, Hazazi R, Vilkin A, Waked A, Maoz E, et al. A quantitative immunochemical fecal occult blood test for colorectal neoplasia. Ann Intern Med. 2007;146:244-55. [PMID: 17310048] LinkGoogle Scholar2. Hoepffner N, Shastri YM, Hanisch E, Rösch W, Mössner J, Caspary WF, et al. Comparative evaluation of a new bedside faecal occult blood test in a prospective multicentre study. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2006;23:145-54. [PMID: 16393292] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. Trojan J, Povse N, Schröder O, Stein J. A new immunological test strip device for the rapid, qualitative detection of faecal occult blood. Z Gastroenterol. 2002;40:921-4. [PMID: 12436369] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: Yogesh M. Shastri, MD, DNB; Jürgen Stein, MD, PhDAffiliations: From Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee AlsoA Quantitative Immunochemical Fecal Occult Blood Test for Colorectal Neoplasia Zohar Levi , Paul Rozen , Rachel Hazazi , Alex Vilkin , Amal Waked , Eran Maoz , Shlomo Birkenfeld , Moshe Leshno , and Yaron Niv Quantitative Immunochemical Fecal Occult Blood Test for Diagnosing Colorectal Neoplasia Paul Rozen , Zohar Levi , and Yaron Niv Metrics Cited byMolecular Targets and Clinical Cancer Risk Reductive InterventionsNicht-invasive Diagnostik kolorektaler Tumore – Hat der Guaiac-Test ausgedient? / Non-invasive detection of colorectal cancer – do we still need the guaiac-based fecal occult blood test?Non-invasive detection of colorectal cancer – do we still need the guaiac-based fecal occult blood test? 1 2 October 2007Volume 147, Issue 7Page: 522-523KeywordsColonoscopyColorectal cancer screeningColorectal neoplasiaConflicts of interestEnzyme linked immunosorbent assayHematologic testsHemoglobinQualitative studiesSpecificity ePublished: 2 October 2007 Issue Published: 2 October 2007 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2007 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...