A little-known home test can detect colon cancer with early start before the symptoms develop, which increases the chance of surviving a disease that rises in young people.
The faecal immunochemic test (Fit) costs $ 49 and screens someone’s excrement for blood stains, a warning signal of the cancer – because tumors cause bleeding.
The test has been approved by the FDA and offers younger people the chance to screen for colon cancer before reaching the recommended age for a colonoscopy, 45 years old.
If blood is detected, a colonoscopy is performed, making the chances of catching colon cancer in the past when it can be treated more.
And the American College of Surgeons says that it is generally accurate and is able to detect approximately 80 percent of all cases. If someone chooses the $ 600 that fits DNA screening, which checks for abnormal changes in the DNA of cells, accuracy rises to 92 percent.
A colonoscopy is approximately 99 percent accurate in detecting all cancers.
A recent study showed that people who use the FIT method between 40 and 49 years old are 39 percent less likely to die of bowel cancer than their peers waiting to get the test until they are 50 years or older.
An increasing number of younger people are looking for screening, because the US is one Peak of colon cancer in people younger than 50With young patients nowadays about twice as much chance of determining the disease than their grandparents.
Displayed above is Christine Bronstein who was diagnosed with colon cancer at the age of 48 after taking a home-based test for the disease. She said without the test, her cancer might have gone unnoticed
The rising rates cause some doctors to encourage Americans to be screened for the disease before the age of 45, that is when American doctors recommend.
For the test, which can be ordered online, customers receive a package with a collection tube.
They are asked to collect a sample of their droppings from the toilet bowl, place it in the tube and send them to a laboratory.
Results take about five days to come back.
In the lab, scientists expose the stools to antibodies that can bind to human hemoglobin – a protein found in red blood cells.
If they bind to a part of the stool, a positive test result is issued – and patients are advised to conduct further screening.
In the fit with DNA, scientists also analyze cells that are found in the stools on abnormal changes – which may indicate cancer.
Patients older than 45 years who have an average risk – which means that no family history of the disease can be recommended the test, which is free for the group under health insurance plans.
But people can also buy the test, which is sold by laboratories such as Everlywell for $ 49, or opt for other tests such as Cologuard, which is priced at $ 121.
Although the test can be extremely useful, doctors warn that about five to 10 percent of patients who get a positive result have no colon cancer or advanced polyps.
The number of false positives after a colonoscopy is less than one percent.
It is important to follow a doctor to discuss results.
Doctors found her the diagnosis stage three cancer after the test, and a tumor of two inches was found in her rectum. She underwent chemotherapy to reduce her tumor (shown above) before doctors said they would remove it
A stock image of the fit is shown above, where a sample droppings are sent to a laboratory
Patients who perform the test are recommended to do this every year, because this can help to catch cancers with early start who usually grow slower.
Among patients to catch their cancer after using a home relief test is Christine Bronstein, who was diagnosed by the cancer at the age of 48.
The Hawaii -Local exercises regularly and avoid sugar and alcohol.
But after she had seen blood in her stool in 2021, she was delivered and ordered a stool -based test.
After the results had come back positively, she hurried to her doctor and was finally approved for a colonoscopy – which led to a stage three colon cancer diagnosis with a two -inch tumor in her rectum.
Bronstein told TODAY: ‘I am very lucky that I did my test when I did. This thing really takes people straight in their prime … I think the problem is why this is the number 1 murderer for younger people is because their symptoms are refused. ‘
Among the 1950s, cases of colon cancer are in the US in an increase that surprised researchers, in which adults were born in the 1980s with double the risk of suffering on cancer compared to their parents.
Among adults aged 25 to 29 years, according to CDC data, colon cancer cancer rates have risen 85 percent in two decades. At the same time, the cases of the past 30 years have fallen by 30 percent.
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