What is it about?
This paper summarizes the knowledge of the role of serum tumor markers Ca 19-9, CEA and CA 72-2 in gastric cancer as a screening, prognostic and monitoring tools.
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Why is it important?
Our work show that CA 19-9, CEA, and CA 72-4 are not suitable tumor markers for screening and early diagnosis in gastric cancer, but they are useful as prognostic and monitoring tools in gastric cancer.
Perspectives
It was very satisfying for me to write and publish this article with such a prominent gastroenterologist and endoscopist like my co-author Dr. Peter Draganov.
Dr Andrey Iskrenov Kotzev
Medicinski universitet Sofia
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This page is a summary of: Carbohydrate Antigen 19-9, Carcinoembryonic Antigen, and Carbohydrate Antigen 72-4 in Gastric Cancer: Is the Old Band Still Playing?, Gastrointestinal Tumors, April 2018, Karger Publishers,
DOI: 10.1159/000488240.
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