Ovarian Cancer

Serum proteomics technology debated

Published in Blood Weekly, March 10th, 2005

In 2002, a study reported that an analysis of protein patterns in a blood sample could be used to detect ovarian cancer. However, questions have been raised about whether the technology produces results that are reproducible and reliable enough for use as a screening test.

Keith A. Baggerly, PhD, of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and colleagues have examined the reproducibility of the proteomic pattern found in a previous study by a researcher at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, that used publicly available ovarian cancer datasets produced by Lance A. Liotta, MD, PhD, of the U.S. National Cancer Institute, and Emanuel F....

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