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The Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT), testing for Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Why It Matters？

IBD and IBS are two common gastrointestinal disorders that affect millions of people worldwide. They have similarities, but also differences between them.

During perimenopause, women may experience physical and psychological discomfort due to fluctuations or decreased levels of sex hormones. In addition to menstrual disorders such as irregular menstrual cycles, delayed menstruation, and increasing or decreasing menstrual volume until menopause, the main symptoms include a series of vasoconstrictive and neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as hot flashes, sweating, irritability, anxiety, emotional, palpitations, and insomnia. These are the perimenopausal syndrome, also commonly known as menopausal syndrome.

May 25 is World Thyroid Day, designed to raise awareness about the thyroid gland and its diseases. Thyroid diseases are quite common, there are about 20 million affected people just in the USA. However, there are some rare thyroid diseases that are not well-known to the public, and it is hard to diagnose and treat them. But if one leaves it untreated, it might lead to serious health problems. Here, we would like to share some information related to the diagnosis of thyroiditis.

Thyroid hormones play a crucial role in the regulation of many body functions, including metabolism, growth, and development. The thyroid gland produces two main hormones, triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4), which are released into the bloodstream and transported throughout the body. These hormones bind to specific receptors in cells and tissues, where they regulate gene expression and cellular activity.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that mainly involves the digestive system, and Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are the main types of it. Common complications of UC include toxic megacolon, colonic stenosis, intestinal obstruction, intestinal bleeding, intestinal perforation, colon polyps, and colon cancer; common complications of CD include fistula, abdominal abscess, intestinal obstruction, and perianal lesions, less likely to develop into a cancer.

Colorectal cancer is a relatively common cancer, which seriously harms people's health. Normally its initial symptoms are not easy to be found, and when found it might be at the late stage. What are the early symptoms of colorectal cancer? How to detect and prevent colorectal cancer at early stage?

In 2020, there were about 1.1 million new cases of gastric cancer worldwide, ranking at fourth among the causes of deaths of malignant tumors, and about 800,000 deaths because of the gastric cancer yearly. Asia (mainly China) has the highest number of registered gastric cancer cases (approximately 820,000 new cases and 580,00 deaths), with less than 20% survival rate in 5-yearan as estimated.

Tumor markers are specific substances that can reflect the occurrence and development of tumors and tumor marker level helps to monitor patient’s response to treatment.Tumor markers are present in the tissues, body fluids and excreta of tumor patients, and can be detected by immunological, biological and chemical methods.

The IVD industry refers to the in vitro diagnostic field, which by mean of the techniques such as molecular biology and biochemical analysis to detect and diagnose physiological or pathological states of the human body. With the upgrading of network technology, the digitization and intelligence in the IVD industry have been becoming as a development trend.