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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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Book category Books in English Medicine Clinical & internal medicine Diseases & disorders

• Full title: Advances in Cancer Biomarkers
• Subtitle: From biochemistry to clinic for a critical revision
• Author: Roberto Scatena
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 372
• EAN: 9789401772143
• ISBN: 9401772142
• ID: 09327843
• Publisher: Springer
• Weight: 9499 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 178 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 2015

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