Nutrition And Balanced Diet

A UCLA/Veteran's Affairs study showed that more than 40 percent of patients who initially had received a positive result on a fecal occult blood test (FOBT) -- an initial screening tool for colon cancer -- did not receive appropriate diagnostic follow-up tests such as a colonoscopy or barium enema in 2002. As per the authors, the study may even underestimate this problem in the United States, since prior studies have shown the VA's level of preventive care and follow-up traditionally has been higher than at most other health care settings........

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