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David H. Greegor, MD
Columbus, Ohio

JAMA. 1993;270(4):451.

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To the Editor.

—Ahlquist et al¹ studied 1217 postresection colons and concluded that fecal occult blood testing "in a screening setting is a poor marker."

Colon carcinomas are characterized by long doubling times and small growth fractions. The malignancies in the study by Ahlquist et al were less than 3 years of age. Also, no emphasis was placed on the inclusion of high roughage (bran and peanuts) in the 5-day test diet. Considering all of this, I find a 33% detection rate to be very good. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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