Cancer biomarkers
Subtitle: the promises and challenges of improving detection and treatment
By: Committee on Developing Biomarker-Based Tools for Cancer Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies ; Sharyl J. Nass and Harold L. Moses, editors.
Contributors: Nass, Sharyl J.; Moses, Harold L.; National Academies Press (U.S.); Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Developing Biomarker-Based Tools for Cancer Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780309103862
Subjects: Tumor markers; Cancer -- Diagnosis; Cancer -- Therapy; Neoplasms; Tumor Markers, Biological; Biological Markers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Also available as electronic resource.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Methods, tools, and resources needed to discover and develop biomarkers; title: Guidelines, standards, oversight, and incentives needed for biomarker development; title: Methods and process needed for clinical adoption and evaluation of biomarker-based diagnostics.