15^th Global Biomarkers and Clinical Research Summit

Cancer Biomarkers

A Cancer biomarker alludes to a substance or process that has the characteristic of the nearness of malignancy in the body. A biomarker might be an molecule discharged by a tumor or a particular reaction of the body to the nearness of disease. Hereditary, epigenetic, proteomic, glycomic, and other biomarkers can be utilized for malignant growth finding, guess, and the study of disease transmission. In a perfect world, such biomarkers can be measured in non-intrusively gathered biofluids like blood or serum

In Cancer research, Biomarkers can be used in 3 important ways :

1.       To help analyze conditions, as on account of distinguishing beginning time malignant growths (Diagnostic)

2.       To figure how forceful a condition is, as on account of deciding a patient's capacity to passage without treatment (Prognostic)

3.       To anticipate how well a patient will react to treatment (Predictive)