Open AccessFucose: A biomarker in grading of oral cancer
Author(s) -
Satish Kumar,
Mona Saxena,
K Srinivas,
Vinod Singh
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
national journal of maxillofacial surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-3418
pISSN - 0975-5950
DOI - 10.4103/0975-5950.183869
Subject(s) - medicine , grading (engineering) , fucose , biomarker , cancer , gastroenterology , oncology , pathology , biochemistry , glycoprotein , chemistry , civil engineering , engineering
Early diagnosis of cancer helps a great deal in the management of oral cancer patients. Number of proteinous markers have been employed for this purpose. Majority of them are not specific. Recently conjugated oligosaccharide with proteins and lipids have gained considerable importance in the present postgenomics and postproteomic period in the diagnostic and prognostics of cancer cases.