Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Integrated extracellular microRNA profiling for ovarian cancer screening

  • Akira Yokoi,
  • Juntaro Matsuzaki,
  • Yusuke Yamamoto,
  • Yutaka Yoneoka,
  • Kenta Takahashi,
  • Hanako Shimizu,
  • Takashi Uehara,
  • Mitsuya Ishikawa,
  • Shun-ichi Ikeda,
  • Takumi Sonoda,
  • Junpei Kawauchi,
  • Satoko Takizawa,
  • Yoshiaki Aoki,
  • Shumpei Niida,
  • Hiromi Sakamoto,
  • Ken Kato,
  • Tomoyasu Kato,
  • Takahiro Ochiya

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06434-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Screening methods for early detection of ovarian cancer is technically difficult. Here, the authors investigated circulating microRNA in human blood serum and developed a model using 10 microRNAs to discern between ovarian cancer and being ovarian tumors, solid tumors, and non-cancer patients.