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Research Article| Volume 10, ISSUE 1, P1-37, March 1990

Cancer Markers of the 1990s: Comparison of the New Generation of Markers Defined by Monoclonal Antibodies and Oncogene Probes to Prototypic Markers

  • Stewart Sell
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    Address reprint requests to: Stewart Sell, MD, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, P.O. Box 20708, Houston, TX 77225
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    Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas.
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      Markers found in the blood of cancer patients may be used to make the diagnosis of cancer, determine the prognosis of a patient with cancer, and monitor the effects of therapy. In this review, the results using the prototype markers—monoclonal immunoglobulins, al-phafetoprotein, and carcinoembryonic antigen—are compared with those found with a number of more recently identified markers detected by monoclonal antibodies and oncogene products detected immunologically or by “anti-sense” probes. Although a “magic marker” for cancer has not been found, the systematic application of the appropriate set of markers for a given patient can add vital information that is not obtainable by other means.
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