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The promise of biomarkers in cancer screening and detection.
Trends in molecular medicine - 1 Jun 2002
Negm Robert S, Verma Mukesh, Srivastava Sudhir
Abstract excerpt
Despite the recent decline in the incidence of cancer, long-term mortality rates remain unchanged. One of the most important factors in the survival of cancer is detection at an early stage. Clinical assays that detect the early events of cancer offer an opportunity to intervene and prevent cancer progression. Biomarkers are important molecular signatures of the phenotype of a cell that aid in early cancer...
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