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Biomarkers for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: From Origin to Clinical Diagnosis

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BIOMEDICINES
卷 11, 期 7, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11071852

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hepatocellular carcinoma; diagnosis; imaging methods; molecular markers

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The incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and HCC-related deaths have been increasing, and there are several risk factors associated with its development. Diagnosis of HCC is based on imaging methods and diagnostic biomarkers. This review examines the worldwide and Egyptian epidemiology of HCC, the risk factors, and provides updated diagnostic biomarkers, including protein markers, nucleic acids, metabolites, and recently identified biomarkers through iTRAQ.
The incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and HCC-related deaths has increased over the last few decades. There are several risk factors of HCC such as viral hepatitis (B, C), cirrhosis, tobacco and alcohol use, aflatoxin-contaminated food, pesticides, diabetes, obesity, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and metabolic and genetic diseases. Diagnosis of HCC is based on different methods such as imaging ultrasonography (US), multiphasic enhanced computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and several diagnostic biomarkers. In this review, we examine the epidemiology of HCC worldwide and in Egypt as well as risk factors associated with the development of HCC and, finally, provide the updated diagnostic biomarkers for the diagnosis of HCC, particularly in the early stages of HCC. Several biomarkers are considered to diagnose HCC, including downregulated or upregulated protein markers secreted during HCC development, circulating nucleic acids or cells, metabolites, and the promising, recently identified biomarkers based on quantitative proteomics through the isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ). In addition, a diagnostic model used to improve the sensitivity of combined biomarkers for the diagnosis of early HCC is discussed.

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