Yuko Ishibashi, Hiroshi Ohtsu, Masako Ikemura, Yasuko Kikuchi, Takayoshi Niwa, Kotoe Nishioka, Yoshihiro Uchida, Hirona Miura, Susumu Aikou, Toshiaki Gunji, Nobuyuki Matsuhashi, Yasukazu Ohmoto, Takeshi Sasaki, Yasuyuki Seto, Toshihisa Ogawa, Keiichiro Tada, Sachiyo Nomura
Breast cancer remains a common malignancy in women, but the take-up for breast cancer screening programs in Japan is still low, possibly due to its perceived inconvenience. TFF1 and TFF3 are expressed in both breast cancer tissue and normal breast. Serum trefoil proteins were reported as cancer screening markers for gastric, prostate, lung, pancreatic cancer and cholangio carcinoma. The purpose of this study was to examine whether serum trefoil proteins could be screening biomarkers for breast cancer. Serum trefoil proteins in 94 breast cancer patients and 84 health check females were measured by ELISA...
July 7, 2017: Scientific Reports