Tumour marker CA15-3: possible uses in the routine management of breast cancer.

Journal article

Tumour markers are a potentially powerful means of obtaining information about cancers whilst causing minimal morbidity, inconvenience and cost. CA15-3 has been suggested as a marker of distant metastasis (M+ disease) in breast cancer. We have measured CA15-3 in 77 patients with carcinoma of the breast in order to determine whether routine assay of this tumour marker would be useful in the oncology unit of a district general hospital. A highly significant correlation existed between elevated ...

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Authors: Tomlinson, I; Whyman, A; Barrett, J; Kremer, J

• Journal: European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990)
• Volume: 31A
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 899-902
• Publication date: 1995-06-01
• DOI: 10.1016/0959-8049(94)00447-1
• EISSN: 1879-0852
• ISSN: 0959-8049
• Language: English
• Keywords: False Positive Reactions; Prognosis; Humans; Bone Neoplasms; False Negative Reactions; Mucin-1; Tumor Markers, Biological; Sensitivity and Specificity; Follow-Up Studies; Technetium Tc 99m Medronate; Breast Neoplasms