Tumor markers can help doctors diagnose testicular cancer, determine effective treatment, and monitor how well that treatment is working. Doctors have been using tumor markers to help diagnose and ...

Limitations of tumor markers and CA125 as an example tumor marker in the context of ovarian cancer will also be discussed. Learning Objectives: 1. Describe the types and characteristics of tumor ...

This process of cell killing, or lysis is known as phagocytosis. However, in ‘cold’ tumors macrophages cannot detect cancer cells due to many reasons, including overexpression of CD47 on the tumor ...

The tumor marker gene test can be used to personalizing the reference ranges of CA19-9 and DUPAN-2 according to an individual's FUT2/FUT3 variant status. Doing so improves the diagnostic performance ...

A subset of patients with elevated serum tumor markers after chemotherapy is curable with surgery. The prognostic factors predictive of outcome in this analysis include an increasing βHCG, serum AFP ...

Michael Caligiuri, MD, discusses the modulation of natural killer cells to enhance their ability to detect and destroy tumor ...