Gene-targeted therapy and immunotherapy can be regarded as the most cutting-edge methods in current cancer treatment, saving the lives of many cancer patients. An essential indicator in these new types of cancer treatment is cancer biomarker testing.
Here are answers to nine frequently asked questions about cancer markers.
1. What Is a Cancer Biomarker?
The full name of biomarker is biological marker; a cancer biomarker or cancer marker, as the name suggests, indicates the characteristics of cancer.
Modern medicine is moving toward precision medicine, which is also known as personalized medicine. Medical experts are not only concerned about the general tissue classification of cancer, but have also begun to pay attention to how the same type of cancer manifests in different patients. According to the National Cancer Institute, these characteristics reflect different changes in genes, proteins, etc., and these differences can affect the efficacy of cancer treatment. Therefore, doctors can develop targeted treatments based on these differences….