Lucknow, UP
India
Research Article
Evaluation of Serum of Breast Cancer Patients using High Resolution Magic Angle Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (HR-MAS): A Search for Possible Biomarker?
Author(s): Surender Kumar, Ahmed F, Sonkar AA, Saroj JK, Parihaar A, Singhai A and Singh VKSurender Kumar, Ahmed F, Sonkar AA, Saroj JK, Parihaar A, Singhai A and Singh VK
Background: Early diagnosis is an important factor for successful outcome in breast cancer. Current existing prognostic and predictive tool like ER, PR and HER2 status have main utility to guide whether a patient should or should not receive adjuvant endocrine or targeted therapy and situation has become more complex after the discovery of genomic tests like oncotype Dx etc. So the need to enhance the understanding of the disease process and treatment response, a hunt for suitable tumor marker is still on.
Sample collection: 5-7 ml fasting peripheral venous blood was withdrawn from newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. The subjects were properly matched in terms of age, sex, dietary habits and other parameters. The blood was centrifuged and resultant supernatant serum was put into the 3 ml ependorf tube and the specimen was immediately snap .. Read More»
Journal of Surgery received 288 citations as per Google Scholar report