Breast cancer and tumor markers / 国际外科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women and has been increasing in the last few years. Tumor markers are usually substances occurring in blood or tissue which might be clinically usable in patients with cancer. Owing to a lack of sensitivity for early disease and lack of specificity, none of the a-vailable markers is of much value for the early detection of breast cancer. To identify potential early-stage markers for breast cancer is a difficult problem. Here we summarizes the application of tumor markers in the diagnosis and prognostic prediction in breast cancer, which include CA153 ,CEA, PR and AR, and recently defined markers such as miRNA, hMAM, Midkine.