Open AccessPlasma lipidomics profiling identified lipid biomarkers in distinguishing early-stage breast cancer from benign lesions
Author(s) -
Xiaoli Chen,
Hankui Chen,
Meiyu Dai,
Junmei Ai,
Yan Li,
Brett Mahon,
Shengming Dai,
Youping Deng
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
oncotarget
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.373
H-Index - 127
ISSN - 1949-2553
DOI - 10.18632/oncotarget.9124
Subject(s) - lipidomics , breast cancer , medicine , oncology , biomarker , logistic regression , predictive value , cancer , bioinformatics , biology , biochemistry
Breast cancer is very common and highly fatal in women. Current non-invasive detection methods like mammograms are unsatisfactory. Lipidomics, a promising detection method, may serve as a novel prognostic approach for breast cancer in high-risk patients.