TY - JOUR A2 - Emmert-Buck, Michael R. AU - Indovina, Paola AU - Marcelli, Eleonora AU - Maranta, Pasquale AU - Tarro, Giulio PY - 2011 DA - 2011/09/15 TI - Lung Cancer Proteomics: Recent Advances in Biomarker Discovery SP - 726869 VL - 2011 AB - Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in both men and women in Western countries, with a 5-year survival rate of 15%, which is among the lowest of all cancers. The high mortality from lung cancer is due not only to the late stage diagnosis but also to the lack of effective treatments even for patients diagnosed with stage I lung cancer. Therefore, there is an urgent need to identify new markers for early diagnosis and prognosis that could serve to open novel therapeutic avenues. Proteomics can represent an important tool for the identification of biomarkers and therapeutic targets for lung cancer since DNA-based biomarkers did not prove to have adequate sensitivity, specificity, and reproducibility. In this paper we will describe studies focused on the identification of new diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive markers for lung cancer, using proteomics technologies. SN - 2090-2166 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/726869 DO - 10.1155/2011/726869 JF - International Journal of Proteomics PB - Hindawi Publishing Corporation KW - ER -