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Liver cancers which spread are linked to a particular gene

...ose which do not. They found that a protein called osteopontin produced by a particular gene is necessary for spreading. They found that cancer cells grown in the lab were more likely to spread, as a result of high levels of osteopontin. They also found that blocking this protein prevents cancer cells from sprea...

Test to predict ovarian cancer

...test is based on four proteins, leptin, prolactin, osteopontin and insulin-like-growth-factor II, if the level of two of these biomarkers fall within a pre-designated zone then the patient is certain to have ovarian cancer. Of the 200 people with ovarian cancer and healthy women, the blood test had been able t...

Osteopontin: a useful biomarker in asbestos-related cancer

...edicine, was conducted to test the hypothesis that osteopontin is a useful biomarker in pleural mesothelioma and, more specifically, to compare serum levels of osteopontin in a cohort of subjects with asbestos-related biomarker disease with preoperative levels in patients...

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