Risk stratification of symptomatic patients suspected of colorectal cancer using faecal and urinary markers.
M M WidlakM NealE DaultonC L ThomasC TomkinsB SinghC HarmstonA WicaksonoC EvansS SmithR S SavageJ A CovingtonRamesh Pulendran ArasaradnamPublished in: Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (2018)
When applied to the FIT-negative group, urinary VOCs improve CRC detection (sensitivity rises from 0.80 to 0.97), thus showing promise as a second-stage test to complement FIT in the detection of CRC.