Combined Use of Common Fecal and Blood Markers for Detection of Endoscopically Active Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Introduction: Monitoring of disease activity is essential in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Although endoscopic remission is the ideal therapeutic goal, noninvasive biomarkers (blood and fecal) are more acceptable to patients and are less costly. We evaluated the performance of combinations of fecal and blood markers on the detection of endoscopically active disease.

Risk of stricture after endoscopic submucosal dissection for large rectal neoplasms.

Background And Study Aims: Improvements in the endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) technique have made circumferential ESD in the rectum possible. However, little is known about the clinical course after extensive ESD in the rectum. The aim of this study was to determine the stricture risk in the rectum after total or subtotal circumferential ESD.

Association between body mass index and risk of formation of breast cancer in Chinese women.

Objective: To analyse the association between body mass index (BMI) and breast cancer risk among Chinese women in Hong Kong.

Methods: We conducted a population-based case control study of breast cancer in June 2002. Standardized questionnaires concerning BMI and other anthropometric data were completed by patients at the Queen Mary Hospital (QMH).