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Advances in Cancer Biomarkers: From biochemistry to clinic for a critical revision

At present there are a growing number of biomolecules under investigation to understand their potential role as cancer biomarker for diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic purposes. Intriguingly, the state of art on cancer biomarkers research shows interesting and promising results together to clamorous failures. Also from a clinical point of view, there are contradictory results on routine clinical use of the present cancer biomarkers. Some patients may be simply monitored in their course by a periodic blood sample, but sometimes this monitoring shows dramatic limits. A lot of patients show serious and extensive relapses without significant change in serum concentrations of biomarkers tested. Often the physician who should utilize these biomarker does not entirely know their limits and the total potential applications as well and sometimes this knowledge is influenced by economical and marketing strategies. This limited and “polluted” knowledge may have dramatic consequences for patient. The aim of this book is to diffuse all aspects of cancer biomarkers, from their biochemical peculiarities to all clinical implications by passing through their physiology and pathophysiology.

This critical approach towards old and new cancer biomarkers should foster a deepened and useful understanding of the diagnostic and prognostic index of these fundamental parameters of laboratory medicine and in the same time facilitating the research of new and more sensitive-specific signals of the cancer cell proliferation.

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Series Title
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
Call Number
616.994 ADV a
Publisher
: Springer.,
Collation
IX, 372
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
978-94-017-7215-0
Classification
616.994
Content Type
text
Media Type
computer
Carrier Type
online resource
Edition
Ed. 1
Subject(s)
Pharmacology
Oncology
Cancer Biology
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https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-94-017-7215-0.pdf?pdf=button
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