Critical comments for roles of biomarkers in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

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A biomarker is defined as "a characteristic that is objectively measured and evaluated as an indicator of normal biologic processes, pathogenic processes, or pharmacologic/pharmacodynamic responses to a therapeutic intervention". Various assays, including immunohistochemistry, gene constitution such as amplification, mutation, and rearrangement, gene and protein expression analysis such as single gene or protein...

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