Those advances have led to major improvements in cancer treatment, mainly through the development of methods for timely and accurate diagnosis, selective surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapeutic drugs, and targeted therapies (agents designed against specific molecules involved in cancer).
Cardiac troponins are tests with high sensitivity and specificity and selective biomarkers for diagnosis of acute myocardial infarct.
Living cell arrays offer a higher-resolution visualization of HA CD44 interactions and may provide a deep insight into understanding molecular mechanisms needed to develop selective therapies and diagnosis against tumor growth.
To achieve selective tumor treatment, diagnosis should provide information about expression of tumor-specific antigens that might be targeted by specific drugs or drug-carriers.
Does prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion, or preimplantation genetic diagnosis, communicate that disability is so terrible it warrants not being alive?
Currently, electrochemical sensing is facing some challenges which should be sorted out to get a highly sensitive and selective system for the diagnosis of diseases.
Savulescu (2001) argues for what he calls the principle of Procreative Beneficence: couples should use pre-genetic diagnosis and selective abortion to choose the child, of the children they could have, who will have the best life.
To investigate the impact of the new consensus diagnostic criteria on the prevalence of gestational diabetes, evaluate risk factors, and missed opportunities for diagnosis if selective screening strategy was employed.
We conclude that the present study facilitates the further development of a specific Tn marker and may contribute to the development of Tn-like radiolabelled peptides or Tn-specific radiolabelled fragments providing a highly selective tool for cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Monoclonal antibodies against oncogene products may provide novel selective tools for the diagnosis and therapy of cancer.
