Molecular Oncology: Principles and Recent Advances

Author(s): M. Veronica Ponce-Castaneda and Lourdes Cabrera-Munoz

DOI: 10.2174/978160805016111201010163

Molecular Diagnosis and Prognosis

Pp: 163-171 (9)

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Abstract

SHS investigation development is considered from the geographical and historical viewpoint. 3 stages are described. Within Stage 1 the work was carried out in the Department of the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka where the scientific discovery had been made. At Stage 2 the interest to SHS arose in different cities and towns of the former USSR. Within Stage 3 SHS entered the international scene. Now SHS processes and products are being studied in more than 50 countries.

Abstract

Detection of DNA and RNA alterations and proteins associated with cancer are used as indicators or biomarkers for specific tumor traits that help in cancer diagnosis and patient management. Molecular diagnosis in cancer is a new discipline that incorporates genomic and proteomic information related to malignant, premalignant and normal tissues from which clinically useful cancer biomarkers are expected to be identified. The goal is to find and clinically validate biomarkers associated with cancer risk, early detection, phenotypic tumor aggressivity, tumor staging, or biomarkers associated to prognosis such as response to treatment, disease recurrence and survival. Challenges for achieving this goal arise from a need of significant economic investment, as well as a multidisciplinary approach and the inherent molecular complexity of cancer itself.

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