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Update on the utility of prognostic biomarkers in ovarian cancer

There is considerable interest in the gynecologic cancer community for the development of biomarkers that will be of utility in routine management of women with advanced ovarian cancer. However, at the present time, there remains limited evidence for the usefulness of any such test other than the se...

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Autor principal: Markman, Maurie
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medicine Reports Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2924732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20948749
http://dx.doi.org/10.3410/M1-31
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description There is considerable interest in the gynecologic cancer community for the development of biomarkers that will be of utility in routine management of women with advanced ovarian cancer. However, at the present time, there remains limited evidence for the usefulness of any such test other than the serum cancer antigen (CA)-125 level, employed to monitor the course of disease in response to treatment or during periods of observation.
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spelling pubmed-29247322010-10-14 Update on the utility of prognostic biomarkers in ovarian cancer Markman, Maurie F1000 Med Rep Review Article There is considerable interest in the gynecologic cancer community for the development of biomarkers that will be of utility in routine management of women with advanced ovarian cancer. However, at the present time, there remains limited evidence for the usefulness of any such test other than the serum cancer antigen (CA)-125 level, employed to monitor the course of disease in response to treatment or during periods of observation. Medicine Reports Ltd 2009-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC2924732/ /pubmed/20948749 http://dx.doi.org/10.3410/M1-31 Text en © 2009 Medicine Reports Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. You may not use this work for commercial purposes
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Update on the utility of prognostic biomarkers in ovarian cancer
title Update on the utility of prognostic biomarkers in ovarian cancer
title_full Update on the utility of prognostic biomarkers in ovarian cancer
title_fullStr Update on the utility of prognostic biomarkers in ovarian cancer
title_full_unstemmed Update on the utility of prognostic biomarkers in ovarian cancer
title_short Update on the utility of prognostic biomarkers in ovarian cancer
title_sort update on the utility of prognostic biomarkers in ovarian cancer
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2924732/
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