Cancer diagnostics: current and future trends

by NAKAMURA, Robert M.

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Title Statements

Full title :Cancer diagnostics : current and future trends / edited by Robert M. Nakamura [and others].

Summary

Advances in diagnostic technology during the past several years have significantly enhanced our ability to detect human cancers in the very early stages of tumor formation. In Cancer Diagnostics: Current and Future Trends, high-profile laboratory scientists and basic cancer researchers review those recent and emerging clinical laboratory tests that can help in the early detection, evaluation, and prediction of human tumors, and so permit more informed therapeutic decisions. Emphasizing the importance of molecular and genetic RNA/DNA tests that can detect persons at high risk for specific cancers, the authors explore these novel serological assays, cellular assays useful for anatomic pathology, and molecular and genetic assays. Highlights include a profile of genetic tests for the diagnosis of colon, lung, and pancreatic cancers and a discussion of the molecular microsatellite instability that is observed in many cancers and permits the diagnosis of particular cancers. Informative and state-of-the-art, Cancer Diagnostics: Current and Future Trends thoroughly treats the best current methods for cancer diagnosis and monitoring, and points to a future in which early diagnosis and detection of cancer will become a reality.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2004.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Humana Press
Place of Publication:Totowa, N.J
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2004.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (x, 508 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1592597912, 9781592597918, 9781617373992, 1617373990, 9786610360123, 661036012X, 1280360127, 9781280360121
DOI:10.1007/978-1-59259-791-8
oclc:ocn644169241
LC Classification:RC270
Dewey Decimal:616.99/4075

Subjects

Biomarkers, Tumor Cancer -- Diagnosis Cancer -- Diagnostic Cancer -- Diagnostic moléculaire Cancer -- Molecular diagnosis Clinical Laboratory Techniques HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases Marqueur biologique tumeur Marqueurs tumoraux Médecine -- Laboratoires Medical laboratory technology Medical Oncology Neoplasms -- diagnosis Techniques et procédures de laboratoire tumeurs -- diagnostic Tumor markers