Tumor markers: An overview
| Autor: | G Suresh Babu, A Naga Supriya, P Swetha, N Govind Raj Kumar |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
Oncology
CA15-3 medicine.medical_specialty education.field_of_study Pathology business.industry Diagnostic marker prognostic marker tumor marker Population Cancer Orthodontics Disease medicine.disease Highly sensitive lcsh:RK1-715 Internal medicine lcsh:Dentistry Medicine Identification (biology) In patient Oral Surgery business education Tumor marker |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Orofacial Sciences, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 87-95 (2012) |
| ISSN: | 0975-8844 |
| Popis: | Tumor markers are substances, usually proteins that are produced by the body in response to cancer growth or by the cancer tissue itself. Measurement or identification of these markers is useful in patient diagnosis and clinical management. An ideal tumor marker should be highly sensitive, specific, accurate, reliable and easily assayable. But none of the tumor markers have all these characteristics. Apart from their limitations, tumor markers are precious tools for screening a healthy and a high risk population for the presence of cancer, making a diagnosis of a specific type of cancer, along with determining the prognosis and monitoring the course of the disease in the patient, at the time of remission or during the course of treatment. This overview discusses and emphasizes currently available tumor markers, their role in cancer and their recent development in cancer diagnosis and prognosis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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