Epigenetic biomarkers: Current strategies and future challenges for their use in the clinical laboratory

JL García-Giménez, M Seco-Cervera… - Critical reviews in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Epigenetic modifications and regulators represent potential molecular elements which
control relevant physiological and pathological features, thereby contributing to the natural …

Beyond the biomarker role: prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in the prostate cancer microenvironment

A Moradi, S Srinivasan, J Clements, J Batra - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2019 - Springer
The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test is the accepted biomarker of tumor
recurrence. PSA levels in serum correlate with disease progression, though its diagnostic …

DNA methylation signatures for prediction of biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy of clinically localized prostate cancer

C Haldrup, K Mundbjerg, EM Vestergaard… - Journal of Clinical …, 2013 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Diagnostic and prognostic tools for prostate cancer (PC) are suboptimal, causing
overtreatment of indolent PC and risk of delayed treatment of aggressive PC. Here, we …

Prognostic DNA methylation markers for prostate cancer

SH Strand, TF Orntoft, KD Sorensen - International journal of molecular …, 2014 - mdpi.com
Prostate cancer (PC) is the most commonly diagnosed neoplasm and the third most
common cause of cancer-related death amongst men in the Western world. PC is a clinically …

[HTML][HTML] A cancer specific hypermethylation signature of the TERT promoter predicts biochemical relapse in prostate cancer: a retrospective cohort study

P Castelo-Branco, R Leão, T Lipman, B Campbell… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The identification of new biomarkers to differentiate between indolent and aggressive
prostate tumors is an important unmet need. We examined the role of THOR (TERT …

DNA methylation profiling of well‐differentiated thyroid cancer uncovers markers of recurrence free survival

V Mancikova, R Buj, E Castelblanco… - … Journal of cancer, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Thyroid cancer is a heterogeneous disease with several subtypes characterized by
cytological, histological and genetic alterations, but the involvement of epigenetics is not …

Emerging clinical importance of the cancer biomarkers kallikrein-related peptidases (KLK) in female and male reproductive organ malignancies

M Schmitt, V Magdolen, F Yang, M Kiechle… - Radiology and …, 2013 - sciendo.com
Background. Tumor tissue-associated KLKs (kallikrein-related peptidases) are clinically
important biomarkers that may allow prognosis of the cancer disease and/or prediction of …

Kallikrein-related peptidase 6 regulates epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and serves as prognostic biomarker for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients

CH Schrader, M Kolb, K Zaoui, C Flechtenmacher… - Molecular cancer, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background Dysregulated expression of Kallikrein-related peptidase 6 (KLK6) is a
common feature for many human malignancies and numerous studies evaluated KLK6 as a …

Urinary DNA methylation biomarkers for noninvasive prediction of aggressive disease in patients with prostate cancer on active surveillance

F Zhao, E Olkhov-Mitsel, T van der Kwast, J Sykes… - The Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose Patients with prostate cancer on active surveillance are monitored by repeat
prostate specific antigen measurements, digital rectal examinations and prostate biopsies. A …

Surrogate end points for overall survival in loco-regionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma: an individual patient data meta-analysis

F Rotolo, JP Pignon, J Bourhis… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background: Our objective was to evaluate progression-free survival (PFS) and distant
metastasis–free survival (DMFS) as surrogate end points for overall survival (OS) in …