Zeinab A Abd Elhameed, Lubna M Tag El Din, Tahra Sherif, Amal M Abdel Aal, Ahmed M Moeen, Esraa N Abd El Hakeem, Eman M Abdelrahman
Urinary bladder cancer (BC) is the ninth most common cancer worldwide. At present, the clinical diagnosis of BC depends on self-reported symptoms, tissue biopsy specimens by cystoscopy and from voided urine cytology. However, cystoscopy is an invasive examination and voided urine cytology has low sensitivity, which might provoke misdiagnosis. The search for cancer biomarkers in blood is worthy of intense attention due to patients' comfort and ease of sampling. This work aimed to study expression of mRNA metadherin (MTDH) in plasma, serum BC specific antigen 1 (BLCA-1) and cystatin C as biomarkers of BC and their relation to different disease stages...
April 2024: Egyptian Journal of Immunology