Clinical Significance of Tumor Markers.
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Assessing the clinical significance of tumor markers in common neoplasms.
The term tumor markers include a spectrum of molecules and substances with widely divergent characteristics whose presence in the significant amount can be related to the malignant disease. An ideal tumor marker should have high specificity and sensitivity, which would allow its use in early diagnosis and prognosis of malignant disease, as well as in prediction of therapeutic response and follo...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Japanese Journal of Gastroenterological Surgery
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0386-9768,1348-9372
DOI: 10.5833/jjgs.27.743