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Blood biomarkers for uveal melanoma.
Triozzi, Pierre L; Singh, Arun D.
Afiliação
  • Triozzi PL; Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH, USA. triozzp@ccf.org
Future Oncol ; 8(2): 205-15, 2012 Feb.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22335584
Uveal melanoma disseminates hematogenously, and blood biomarkers may be useful for prognosis and for monitoring disease progression. Melanoma-associated, metastatic and immune factors have been measured in the blood of patients with uveal melanoma, as have circulating melanoma cells. Most of the biomarkers were derived from studies in cutaneous melanoma. For various biological and/or technical reasons, these assessments have not demonstrated the accuracy required for effective prognostic or monitoring assays. Advances in uveal melanoma genomics and proteomics have generated many candidate biomarkers that are potentially measurable in blood. Measuring circulating nucleic acids may also be possible. Improvements in molecular profiling techniques that accurately predict metastatic risk in uveal melanoma patients should facilitate biomarker discovery and aid implementation in clinical testing. The stage is set to translate the advances made in understanding the molecular characteristics of uveal melanoma in order to identify and test clinically useful blood biomarkers of tumor dissemination and/or progression.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Neoplasias Uveais / Biomarcadores Tumorais / Melanoma Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies Limite: Humans Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2012 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Neoplasias Uveais / Biomarcadores Tumorais / Melanoma Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies Limite: Humans Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2012 Tipo de documento: Article