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MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 285-289Publisher
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.2174/1573406412666151116144520
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Early breast cancer; biomarker; serum tumor markers; ELISA; HER2; Trx1; CSF1; MicroRNA
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The prognosis of breast cancer is strongly influenced by the stage of the disease; therefore, it is essential that breast cancer lesions be diagnosed at the earliest stages. There is an urgent need to identify different biomarkers with a high accuracy for the early detection of this cancer to facilitate clinical management of the disease. A wide number of substances named serum tumor markers can be detected in the serum of patients with breast cancer, including tumor-associated proteins, cytokines, stimulating or inhibiting factors, autoantibodies to antigen tumor-associated substances and miRNAs. Despite ASCO and NACB recommendations, the routine use of breast cancer tumor markers by a significant proportion of oncologists is common, particularly after primary treatment of early tumors. The new promising circulating markers are HER2/neu, Trx 1, CSF1, autoantibodies against these tumor-associated antigens, and miRNAs, which are non-coding RNA molecules that regulate the translation of mRNA and control a number of biological processes, including oncogenic cells proliferation. The expression of single miRNA results in a miRNA signature, and is considered a potential biomarker for early breast cancer. However, additional studies are needed to identify its real usefulness.
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