Effect of serum autoantibodies in the early diagnosis of cancer / 国际肿瘤学杂志

ABSTRACT

At present,the commonly used tumor markers,with low sensitivity and low specificity,can 't achieve the purpose of early diagnosis.However,autoantibodies against tumox-associated antigens have been detected in the asymptomatic stage of cancer and thus can serve as biomarkers for early cancer diagnosis.Moreover,due to autoantibodies are found in sera,they can he screened easily using a noninvasive approach.The discovery of panels of autoantibodies with high sensitivity and specificity will help to improve the diagnostic and prognostic for the patients with cancer.