title: [Organ specificity of tumor markers and its application for clinical diagnosis].
abstract: Several tumor markers are produced by the limited organ and have the advantage for the determination of the origin. However, many tumor markers are produced by various organs and are not specific to cancer but associated with cancer. therefore, combination assays using different categories of tumor markers are necessary to increase the efficacy of cancer-diagnosis and to determine the origin of tumor.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Diagnosis, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Watanabe
mesh_terms: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009928:Organ Specificity
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor