Background: Several previous researchers have investigated the prognostic value of serum tumor markers, especially carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA). Only a limited number of studies reported the usefulness of ser...
Supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC; No.81271600,81671718 and 81873903);the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province in China(No.2016CFB687);the Clinical Foundation of Tongji Hospital(No.2015C013)
Objective Clinical immunohistochemistry plays an increasingly important role in pathologic diagnosis. We investigated the usefulness of an immunohistochemical panel of glypican-3 (GPC3), hepatocyte paraffin antigen-1 ...
Aim:To establish a standardized protocol for the isolation and enumeration of circulating tumor cells(CTCs)from peripheral blood of patients with metastatic breast cancer.Methods:The protocol used tumor cells spiked i...
Background: As the clinical value of cytokeratin-19 (CK 19) and thymidine kinase-1 (TK1 ) in advanced gastrointestinal cancer remains controversial, we investigated their expression and clinical significance in t...
AIM: To evaluate the diagnostic potential of cytokeratin-19 (CK-19) mRNA for the detection of disseminated tumor cells in blood, bone marrow and peritoneal lavage in patients with ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancr...