The faecal immunochemical test - set to be rolled out by the NHS on summit of the neighboring-door few years - looks for hidden blood in the stool, which can be an forward sign of bowel cancer

A different bowel cancer test liven up thing rolled out across the NHS could condense the number of patients referred for endoscopy, research suggests.
The farcical immunological test (FIT) looks for hidden blood in the stool, which can be an to the fore sign of bowel cancer.
Using the test could graze the number of patients needing to be credited following hospital for an endoscopy by on the order of a third, a subsidiary psychoanalysis found.
Previous research has shown surrounded by 60 and 80 per cent of patients referred to hospital for the procedure approach out not to have a immense bowel illness.
Dutch researchers looked at results for 810 patients from 266 GP practices in the Netherlands.
All the patients had the FIT exam past breathing thing referred for an endoscopy - where a skinny tube considering than a well-ventilated and camera attached is used to question the bowel.
Out of the patients referred for the procedure, 669 were found to have no all-powerful bowel complaint.
Once the results of the FIT exam had been taken into account, researchers from the University Medical Center in Utrecht, found regarding 30 per cent of these patients could have been prevented from having an endoscopy