title: The application of SELDI-TOF-MS in clinical diagnosis of cancers.
abstract: Cancer diagnosis is important, and the early diagnosis of cancers could predict a more successful treatment. The proteomic studies emerged to be useful in combined analyses of samples from patients and provide more accurate diagnosis when compared to the single-factor-based diagnosis. In recent years, cancer detection with surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF MS) is flourishing and brought significant progress in this area. This paper summarizes some recent results with this technique for cancer diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Affiliated Taizhou Municipal Hospital, Taizhou Medical College, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. chibo_liu@163.com
authors.forename: Chibo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000032:analysis*; D001826:Body Fluids / Q000737:chemistry*; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D020543:Proteome / Q000032:analysis*; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization / Q000379:methods*; D014020:Tissue Extracts / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D020543:Proteome; D014020:Tissue Extracts