Blood tests are helpful for monitoring your overall health. But research suggests they can also give us clues about the ...

However, tumor marker tests aren’t the only tools they’ll use in cancer care. Other testing techniques will help provide a more comprehensive look at your type of cancer. Regular cells may produce ...

A research team led by the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine has discovered that the stromal cell-derived factor 4 (SDF-4) protein is a reliable cancer marker. As simple blood tests ...

A tumor marker for pancreatic cancer helps healthcare professionals detect, diagnose, or treat it. However, a person can have high tumor marker levels without having cancer. Tumor markers are ...

When Ginny Mason was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer in 1994, she never once heard the word “biomarker.” “Back then, all you got was ER and PR [the estrogen receptor and progesterone ...

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is one of the most lethal cancers, in large part because it usually stays hidden until it ...

While we're still learning how to best treat cancer, doctors have gotten better at spotting it in its earliest stage. That's thanks to specific cancer markers—cells that often appear when invasive ...

Of all the types of breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive and lacks specific therapies. TNBC also is more likely to metastasize, or travel through the blood stream ...

The field of cancer metabolism is ever expanding. Scientists are studying new ways to target metabolism to reduce tumor growth. In healthy cells energy is obtained through complex metabolic processes ...