positive fit test

Have any of you guys done a FIT test and everything turned out fine?

I did a FIT test a few weeks ago which came back at over 400 and I'm so worried, especially since I didn't see blood. I still don't know the next steps.

I just had a blood test and the nurse kindly sent them off urgently for me, so then I can have a GP face to face appointment tomorrow. I didn't ask for it to be urgent but she was very empathetic about me still not finding out what the problem is.

I also want to know if having had cancer in childhood (leakeumia) increases risk of bowel cancer. I can't find much info online.

  • I don't know about the last part, but I do know that the majority of positive FIT tests do not indicate cancer. Many things can cause blood in the stool and cancer is only one possibility. We definitely had people here who got results like you did and did not turn out to have cancer. I am not sure if they are still visiting the site or not.