"China is now the field of genetic testing can be used to describe the status of the word is to enter the 'Warring States Period.'" First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen thyroid surgery, Associate Professor Zhu Yifan 25, told reporters in Guangzhou, the various institutions and companies involved in this A very large area, but the lack of uniform national standards and norms.
American actress Angelina Jolie for genetic testing results, decisive choice to accept mastectomy surgery, gene detection technology to quickly enter the public eye, in recent years China's rapid development of genetic testing technology, all kinds of genetic testing companies such as mushrooming in general Was established.
Genetic testing is a new industry, in recent years, genetic testing quickly penetrated into all aspects of people's work and life, and play an active guiding role. Genetic testing technology and services, from cancer treatment to infant health testing, and beauty to lose weight, in the mouth of some marketers, genetic testing technology seems to have become "supernatural powers, omnipotent ".
Professor Zhu Yi-fan, said genetic testing technology is not mysterious, genetic testing for research, can find the cause of genetics, to determine the detection markers and therapeutic targets; in clinical applications, can carry out genetic disease gene detection and analysis, For genetic counseling and research services.
Zhu Yifan introduced that the application of related technologies is still mainly focused on the research fields of some companies and experts, and is rarely adopted by the state-level institutions. Therefore, in the field of gene detection technology, the application of advanced technologies is relatively rare. Some domestic institutions, directly to overseas experts, the results of personal research, used in the field of medical and health applications, which is very worrying.
Cancer is currently the largest market for gene sequencing. Now many cancer patients, especially breast cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancer patients, many people will choose to do genetic testing.
"I personally think that medical research may be cutting-edge, can be bold in some unknown areas of exploration, but some of the technology directly applied to the human body, you should go through a more rigorous, rigorous longer-term practice and related procedures." Zhu Yi Fan said, genetic testing technology Some of the benefits of a high-tech human technology, but in the country to find relevant medical services, we must find the Kaopu, the formal medical institutions to carry out.