{"title":"Biomarkers in lung cancer diagnosis and bronchoscopy: Current landscape and future directions.","authors":"Nina A Thomas, Melissa L New","doi":"10.1177/18758592241306682","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death world-wide. Along the entire timeline of lung cancer identification, diagnosis and treatment, clinicians and patients face challenges in clinical decision-making that could be aided by useful biomarkers. In this review, we discuss the development of biomarkers and qualities that are ideal in a biomarker candidate, types of biospecimens that can be utilized for biomarker development in lung cancer, and how biomarkers could be clinically useful at various points along lung cancer timeline. We then review biomarkers that have been validated and are clinically available to assist with the management of lung nodules and diagnosis of lung cancer, which includes blood-based biomarkers to assist with decision-making prior to an invasive diagnostic procedure, as well as specimens obtained during a bronchoscopy and applied in cases of an inconclusive biopsy result. Finally, we discuss challenges in biomarker application and recent publications relevant to future lung cancer biomarker development.</p>","PeriodicalId":56320,"journal":{"name":"Cancer Biomarkers","volume":"42 1","pages":"18758592241306682"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cancer Biomarkers","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/18758592241306682","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/3/20 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ONCOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death world-wide. Along the entire timeline of lung cancer identification, diagnosis and treatment, clinicians and patients face challenges in clinical decision-making that could be aided by useful biomarkers. In this review, we discuss the development of biomarkers and qualities that are ideal in a biomarker candidate, types of biospecimens that can be utilized for biomarker development in lung cancer, and how biomarkers could be clinically useful at various points along lung cancer timeline. We then review biomarkers that have been validated and are clinically available to assist with the management of lung nodules and diagnosis of lung cancer, which includes blood-based biomarkers to assist with decision-making prior to an invasive diagnostic procedure, as well as specimens obtained during a bronchoscopy and applied in cases of an inconclusive biopsy result. Finally, we discuss challenges in biomarker application and recent publications relevant to future lung cancer biomarker development.
期刊介绍:
Concentrating on molecular biomarkers in cancer research, Cancer Biomarkers publishes original research findings (and reviews solicited by the editor) on the subject of the identification of markers associated with the disease processes whether or not they are an integral part of the pathological lesion.
The disease markers may include, but are not limited to, genomic, epigenomic, proteomics, cellular and morphologic, and genetic factors predisposing to the disease or indicating the occurrence of the disease. Manuscripts on these factors or biomarkers, either in altered forms, abnormal concentrations or with abnormal tissue distribution leading to disease causation will be accepted.