Two week pathway after Fit test

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I’ve today received this result:

> 200 ug Hb/g Stool

Laboratory comment
> or equal to 10 ug Hb/g: Advise refer under 2ww fast track
pathway for suspected colorectal cancer. This test is not
indicated for suspected inflammatory bowel disease.
> or equal to 10 ug Hb/g: Advise refer under 2ww fast track.
pathway for suspected colorectal cancer
This test is not indicated for suspected inflammatory
bowel disease
Sample analysed at Maidstone Hospital

I’m literally petrified. I’m only 45. Have been on monjaro and slightly constipated from time to time but my bowels are fairly average I’m quite regular and have a good varied diet.

ive had night sweats for a year but have been on HrT and they subsided. Also lower back pain but have been to an osteopath and they agreed it’s postural.

anyone else had a result like this and had a positive outcome?

You must be feeling so worried OP. I cannot offer any practical advice, only that I had a recent referral for a colonoscopy due to symptoms I was having and the wording of my letter was the same. It scared me so much. I had a telephone appointment with my GP the same day who told me not to read too much into that and that she wishes she would change the wording as it's so terrifying to see when nothing is confirmed.

I never saw the figures from my FIT test, only that I was put on the 2W pathway as a result. In my case it did turn out to be cancer , which was successfully treated via surgery, but I know that the majority of cases turn out to be something else - I was quoted a figure of 1 in 10 positive FIT tests resulting in a cancer diagnosis.

It's understandable, but try not to worry too much (easier said than done, I know). Statistics indicate it's more likely than not to not be cancer, and even if it were ,bowel cancer is generally slow growing and usually very treatable .

Did you have any other symptoms or was this just a routine test? We just changed surgeries so this came out of a new patient discussion I just happened to say I’ve had blood in my poo. I do suffer piles through constipation I always have done from as long as I can remember

I had a positive QFit test a couple of years ago. Only symptom was bloating and a tummy ache at night.

Colonoscopy picked up a tiny polyp which was removed then and there. It was benign.

Many friends have had colonoscopies and to date none have been cancer. If it is bad news, picked up early it is very treatable.

I was put on the 2 week pathway for a high calprotectin result (not FIT) and abnormal blood results. I think they were actually most concerned for blood/bone marrow cancers, but my symptoms were all bowel related.

It wasn’t cancer. It was another digestive issue that is easily managed.

I do have cancer now (this is many years later), but completely unrelated. It’s good that you will get checked out. I was seen very quickly for colonoscopy and CT scan.

Just echoing others, this was the wording (suspected cancer) on my 2ww for breast clinic. It is the wording everyone gets and something like 90% of breast lumps aren't cancer.
It doesn't mean cancer is suspected, it just means they'd like to rule it out.

No symptoms, just a routine test that those of us over 60 (now 55 ?) get sent every two years if you are in England.

I believe piles can often be the cause of a positive FIT test

The wording will be the same for anyone who fails that test, I believe. Most of the time it's nothing. I failed my test and came out with an IBD diagnosis.

My result was over 200. I had multiple polyps and had them removed. Not cancer.

So sorry Op, but please let me try and reassure you. This exact same thing just happened to my BF. Positive FIT test and referred on 2 week pathway for a colonoscopy. No cancer - it had been diagnosed as diverticulitis although she has no symptoms other than the FIT test picking up some blood.

it’s actually a really low percentage of people with a positive FIT test who actually get diagnosed with bowel cancer. It probably isn’t that at all, sending a hand hold x

Thankyou all. I lost my SIL to breast cancer when she was 40, my mum had it too but is still here, my step dad had tongue cancer and my uncle has just been diagnosed with asbestosis so I hope I’m just over thinking and all will turn good. It’s the not knowing and waiting that’s so hard I really feel for anyone in this awful limbo.

I had my colonoscopy today - polyps removed. I am So So relieved. Colonoscopy wasn’t the nicest experience and that horrific drink you have to take gave me the worst bum violence I could ever even describe or imagine. Sending positivity to anyone else with concerns x x

Glad it turned out to just be polyps. I'm waiting for date for my annual colonoscopy to come through following surgery last year, and I'm not looking forward to repeating the experience....