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Introduction: Early diagnosis is essential for a good prognosis of patients with endometrial cancer; however, there are currently no noninvasive tests available. Despite the good prognosis with early diagnosis, a significant minority of women will recur, and biomarkers are needed to stratify patients according to their risk of recurrence.
Context: In recent decades, the discovery of blood biomarkers to facilitate diagnosis and improve risk stratification of EC patients has been actively pursued.
Areas covered: The present review is an update of candidate blood biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of endometrial cancer reported in the past eight years, following an earlier review. The literature search was conducted in the PubMed database for the period between July 2016 and September 2024. This review describes studies investigating tumor markers, proteins, metabolites and miRNAs and their diagnostic and prognostic properties. The quality of the included studies is assessed and the limitations and potential for translation into clinical application are discussed.
Expert opinion/commentary: Individual biomarker candidates do not offer optimal diagnostic and prognostic characteristics. The use of omics for biomarker discovery is promising, but development in this area is lagging behind due to methodological issues and a lack of external validation.
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Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics (ISSN 1473-7159) publishes expert reviews of the latest advancements in the field of molecular diagnostics including the detection and monitoring of the molecular causes of disease that are being translated into groundbreaking diagnostic and prognostic technologies to be used in the clinical diagnostic setting.
Each issue of Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics contains leading reviews on current and emerging topics relating to molecular diagnostics, subject to a rigorous peer review process; editorials discussing contentious issues in the field; diagnostic profiles featuring independent, expert evaluations of diagnostic tests; meeting reports of recent molecular diagnostics conferences and key paper evaluations featuring assessments of significant, recently published articles from specialists in molecular diagnostic therapy.
Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics provides the forum for reporting the critical advances being made in this ever-expanding field, as well as the major challenges ahead in their clinical implementation. The journal delivers this information in concise, at-a-glance article formats: invaluable to a time-constrained community.
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