Evaluation of blood-based screening tests for colorectal neoplasia; from biomarker candidates to accurate and acceptable tests

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1006242

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Current bowel cancer screening tests require people to collect a stool sample. While able to be done at home, this creates certain inconveniences and has other barriers to its use including being distasteful to some. Also, even though stool tests are useful they are not as accurate as we would like. We have discovered a molecule in the blood of patients with bowel cancer that could, if configured as a screening test, serve to be of even greater accuracy and also be more acceptable to people.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2011

End Date: 01-01-2013

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $767,382.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Preventive Medicine

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

biomarkers | colorectal cancer | colorectal cancer prevention | diagnostic assay | diagnostic test | participation | screening

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