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SUBMITTER: Opstal-van Winden AW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3497343 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Opstal-van Winden Annemieke W J AW Rodenburg Wendy W Pennings Jeroen L A JL van Oostrom Conny T M CT Beijnen Jos H JH Peeters Petra H M PH van Gils Carla H CH de Vries Annemieke A
International journal of molecular sciences 20121022 10
This study investigates whether a set of ten potential breast cancer serum biomarkers and cancer antigens (osteopontin (OPN), haptoglobin, cancer antigen 15-3 (CA15-3), carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), cancer antigen 125 (CA-125), prolactin, cancer antigen 19-9 (CA19-9), α-fetoprotein (AFP), leptin and migration inhibitory factor (MIF)) can predict early stage breast cancer in samples collected before clinical diagnosis (phase III samples). We performed a nested case-control study within the Pros ...[more]