Discovery and Validation of Clinical Biomarkers of Cancer: A Review Combining Metabolomics and Proteomics

Anubhav Srivastava, Darren John Creek

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Abstract

Early detection and diagnosis of cancer can allow timely medical intervention, which greatly improves chances of survival and enhances quality of life. Biomarkers play an important role in assisting clinicians and health care providers in cancer diagnosis and treatment follow-up. In spite of years of research and the discovery of thousands of candidate cancer biomarkers, only a few have transitioned to routine usage in the clinic. This review highlights advances in proteomics technologies that have enabled high rates of discovery of candidate cancer biomarkers and evaluates integration with other omics technologies to improve their progress through to validation and clinical translation. Furthermore, it gauges the role of metabolomics technology in cancer biomarker research and assesses it as a complementary tool in aiding cancer biomarker discovery and validation.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1700448
Number of pages9
JournalProteomics
Volume19
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2019

Keywords

  • biomarkers
  • cancer
  • diagnosis
  • metabolomics
  • proteomics

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