False positives research study
A research project to investigate the causes of false positive results on faecal occult blood (FOB) testing is now underway. The five year project, funded by Cancer Research UK is a collaboration between the University of Oxford and the newly formed NHS Cancer Screening Programmes' Research Unit, which is based in the University's Cancer Epidemiology Unit.
Pilot studies started early in 2008 and the study will eventually involve over 200,000 screening programme participants, including about 2,500 people with a positive FOB test result who are categorised as normal following a colonoscopy.
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