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Your health care provider will give you a test kit to take home. You will put <br />a small amount of your poop on a card. The kit will explain how to do this. <br />You may have to do this on 2 or 3 cards, depending on the kind of test kit <br />you're given. The cards are returned to your provider's office or a lab to <br />be tested. Testing will tell your provider if there is blood in your poop. If <br />blood is found, a colonoscopy will need to be done to look for the cause <br />of the blood. This test can help find some colorectal cancers, but it can <br />also miss some. <br />This test checks your poop for cancer cells. Your health care provider- will <br />give you a test kit to take home. You will collect a sample of your poop <br />and return it to a lab to be tested. This test will find some colorectal <br />cancers, but it can also miss some. If the test finds cells that may be <br />cancer, a colonoscopy will need to be done. <br />How do I prepare for these test -T <br />For the sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, double-contrast barium enerna, and <br />the CT colonography, your colon will need to be cleaned out as much as <br />possible. You may need to have only clear liquids and no food for some <br />time before the test. You'll take a strong laxative the day before the test <br />and may need to give yourself an enerna the morning of the test. <br />No advance preparation is needed for the stool tests. You'll have to follow <br />the instructions of the kit and will need to return the kits to either your <br />provider or a lab for testing. <br />/4 <br />