However, tumor marker tests aren’t the only tools they’ll use in cancer care. Other testing techniques will help provide a more comprehensive look at your type of cancer. Regular cells may ...

Ovarian cancer tumor markers are proteins that cancer cells produce. Healthcare professionals can test tumor marker levels in a person’s bloodstream and use them alongside imaging and biopsy ...

Tumor markers can be used to detect relapse with a high degree of sensitivity in patients with central nervous system nongerminomatous germ cell tumors (CNS-NGGCTs), according to a pooled analysis ...

Brief Report: Baseline and on treatment characteristics of serum tumor markers in stage IV oncogene-addicted adenocarcinoma of the lung. Journal of Thoracic Oncology , 2017; DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho ...

Tumor markers can be employed for screening, diagnosis, prognostication, guiding therapy, as well as post-therapy surveillance. However, laboratorians need to consider sensitivity, specificity, ...

Healthcare professionals may be able to use some tumor markers to help diagnose pancreatic cancer. They may also use them to measure the effect of treatments or the progression of cancer. They may ...

Doctors use tumor markers to detect liver cancer, track your response to treatment, and predict your outlook. The most commonly used tumor marker is AFP.

Volume 11, Issue 28 of Oncotarget features "Lipid and protein tumor markers for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma identified by imaging mass spectrometry" by Schmidt et, al. which reported that ...

image: D. Ross Camidge, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues show that monitoring levels of blood tumor markers may predict when a lung cancer patient is progressing on targeted treatments. view more .

Researchers in Japan have developed a predictive model that could improve treatment decisions for advanced pancreatic cancer patients. By combining tumor marker readings with patients' genetic ...

New insights into a population of tumor-infiltrating T cells may ultimately allow doctors to predict how patients will respond to checkpoint blockade immunotherapy, a form of cancer treatment with ...