What is it about?
It is about evaluation of lipocalin-2 as a new blood marker for early and more precise diagnosis of liver cancer
Featured Image
Why is it important?
A significant number of liver cancer patients come with late diagnosis. This decrease their chance for cure. That is why we need new markers for earlier diagnosis and follow up of liver cancer patients. Lipocalin-2 is a protein excessively secreted in liver cancer tissue and can play a role in early diagnosis of liver cancer.
Perspectives
This a new step towards better & early diagnosis and follow up of liver cancer patients. The chance of cure & better survival in those patients is greatly depending on early diagnosis and meticulous follow up. Lipocalin-2 offers a good tool for this group of patients.
Mohamed Bassiony
Zagazig University
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Lipocalin-2: A novel diagnostic marker for hepatocellular carcinoma, Cancer Biomarkers, June 2020, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/cbm-190084.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
