Exclusion Criteria
allergic, tumor, cancer, non-melanoma skin cancer, cancer of the stomach and bladder
CANCER, TUMOR, IRON OVERLOAD, DISORDERS
The exclusion criteria are as follows: (1) unable to provide informed consent on their own; (2) allergic to existing iron preparations; (3) underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy or pre-operative radiation therapy; (4) have had or received cancer treatment within 5 years, except for non-melanoma skin cancer, cervical intra-epithelial tumor, and superficial cancer of the stomach and bladder; (4) presence of iron overload or iron utilization disorders; and (5) serum ferritin >800 ng/mL or transferrin saturation >50% on iron panel tests.