Global Lab Quality Initiative
Noninvasive test could be alternative to colonoscopy. The stool DNA test works on the principle of exfoliation — it detects DNA in cells shed into the colon from the surface of cancer and precancer. The test targets a panel of DNA markers for all types of colorectal cancer and precancer with exquisite accuracy. Yet this remarkably sophisticated, high-performance molecular assay… read more →
In an article in the ASCP from the Truman Medical Centre in Kansas, CKMB testing does not add value to information available from the troponin assay and can be removed from the test menu. I couldn’t agree more. While deemphasizing the need for CK-MB tests from 2007 through 2013 and dropping it from panels the number decreased from 12000 to… read more →
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