As cancer cases have increased worldwide, the disease has become more complex, presenting challenges to scientific advances in diagnosis and treatment. In this context, artificial intelligence (AI) ...

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

Immunologists at UNIGE have revealed a previously unknown anti-tumor role of CD4 T lymphocytes, marking a breakthrough that ...

Since Henry Bence Jones first discovered a urine protein marker for multiple myeloma in 1846, the field of cancer biomarkers has grown exponentially. Over the past two centuries, scientists have ...

Tumor markers are made by cancer cells or produced by the body in response to cancer. Learn about common markers for pancreatic cancer and how they're used.

Novel multiomics tumor profiling demonstrates feasibility and clinical benefit in guiding melanoma treatment decisions, a study finds.

Table 1. Circulating tumor cell markers of prognosis, metastasis and therapy monitoring in the major carcinomas: circulating tumor cell counts as a prognostic tool for treatment response.

In a significant step toward improving targeted cancer therapy, researchers from Japan have developed a novel nanocarrier ...

However, these tumor markers do not always accurately detect all cancers, and their accuracy needs to be improved,” said Dr. Takahiro Shinozuka, the first author of the study.

A tumor marker is a substance found in the body that may indicate the presence of cancer. These substances can be proteins, genes, molecules, ...