Laboratory Medicine ›› 2015, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (8): 866-870.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-8640.2015.08.022

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Clinical application of serum biomarkers for ovarian cancer

SONG Binbin, PAN Baishen   

  1. Department of Clinical Laboratory, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
  • Received:2015-01-05 Online:2015-08-30 Published:2015-08-28

Abstract:

Ovarian cancer is the fifth cause of cancer death in women, as well as the cause of deaths in gynecological cancers. Unlike breast cancer, many women die of ovarian cancer because there is no obvious symptom and no screening test in early stages. Nowadays, only a limited number of tumor markers for ovarian cancer has been cleared by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In general, tumor marker applications range from diagnosis and curative effect monitoring to predicting prognosis. The article will review the currently available serum markers for ovarian cancer and their clinical application.

Key words: Carbohydrate antigen 125, Human epididymis protein 4, Ovarian cancer

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