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CRITICAL REVIEWS IN CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENCES
卷 51, 期 3, 页码 149-159出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3109/10408363.2014.893279
关键词
Cancer management; epigenetic alterations; methods and new technologies; monitoring treatment effects; tumor biomarkers
资金
- Hospital of North Zealand, Hillerod
- Jens and Maren Thestrups Fond
- Olga Bryde Nielsens Fond
A wide range of protein cancer biomarkers is currently recommended in international guidelines for monitoring the growth and regression of solid tumors. However, a number of these markers are also present in low concentrations in blood obtained from healthy individuals and from patients with benign diseases. In contrast, evidence has accumulated that suggests that modified methylated DNA is strongly related to the cancer phenotype. The modifications found in modified methylated DNA include a global loss of methylation in the genomes of the tumor cells as well as focal hypermethylation of gene promoters. Because tumor cells naturally secrete DNA and upon cell death leak DNA, modified methylated DNA can be detected in blood, urine, sputum and other body fluids. At present international guidelines do not include recommendations for monitoring modified methylated DNA. The low level of evidence can partly be explained by incomplete collection of serial blood samples, by analytical challenges, and by lack of knowledge of how monitoring studies should be designed and how serial marker data obtained from individual patients should be interpreted. Here, we review the clinical validity and utility of methylated DNA for monitoring the activity of malignant disease.
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