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ONCOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 3-8Publisher
SPANDIDOS PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.3892/ol.2014.2696
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cholangiocarcinoma; serum marker; diagnostic; prognostic
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Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a fatal disease that is typically diagnosed late and treated ineffectively. As the morbidity and mortality rates for CCA rise markedly, patietns with CCA currently have a poor prognosis. However, if it were possible to diagnose CCA early while effective treat methods are available, CCA patients would achieve a better quality of life. Therefore, preventing the process of CCA in the early stages is an urgent problem to solve. An accurate, quick and safe method to diagnose early-stage CCA is required. The present review discusses the risk factors, status of research and certain serum markers of CCA. The sensitivity and specificity of these markers differ from each other. To explore the more accurate serum markers may be a novel direction and method for the diagnosis of CCA in laboratory medicine in the future.
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