Serum biomarkers for early detection of gynecologic cancers

Cancers

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1312-1327

  Ueda, Yutaka ^a   Enomoto, Takayuki ^a   Kimura, Toshihiro ^a   Miyatake, Takashi ^a   Yoshino, Kiyoshi ^a   Fujita, Masami ^a   Kimura, Tadashi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; CA 125; Cancer; Cervical; Endometrial; Ovarian; Proteomics; SCC; Serum; Tumor marker

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN; CA 15-3 ANTIGEN; CA 19-9 ANTIGEN; CA 72-4 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CARTILAGE GLYCOPROTEIN 39; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; CYTOKERATIN 19 FRAGMENT; FAS ANTIGEN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE ACID PROTEIN; INTER ALPHA TRYPSIN INHIBITOR; LEPTIN; LYSOPHOSPHATIDIC ACID; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; OSTEOPONTIN; PROLACTIN; SERUM AMYLOID A; SOMATOMEDIN B; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA ANTIGEN; THYMIDINE KINASE; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEOMICS; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

EID: 79952262527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers2021312     Document Type: Review

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