Sengupta Shreya, Parikh Neehar D
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Hepat Oncol. 2017 Oct;4(4):111-122. doi: 10.2217/hep-2017-0019. Epub 2017 Nov 17.
Early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) leads to improved survival; however, current early detection strategies for HCC surveillance are ineffective. Thus, there has been interest in developing biomarkers to aid in the early detection HCC. In this review, we discuss the five phases of biomarker discovery that are necessary for clinical implementation. We also describe the most promising investigational biomarkers and their phase of discovery. We review several promising technologies for the early detection of HCC, including miRNA, metabolomics and proteomics. Promisingly, there are samples from multiple longitudinal cohorts of patients with cirrhosis in the USA that are being collected in order to validate candidate biomarkers for HCC. A biomarker-based strategy has the potential to become the primary surveillance method for HCC detection.
肝细胞癌(HCC)的早期检测可提高生存率;然而,目前用于HCC监测的早期检测策略效果不佳。因此,人们对开发有助于HCC早期检测的生物标志物产生了兴趣。在本综述中,我们讨论了临床应用所需的生物标志物发现的五个阶段。我们还描述了最有前景的研究性生物标志物及其发现阶段。我们回顾了几种用于HCC早期检测的有前景的技术,包括微小RNA、代谢组学和蛋白质组学。令人鼓舞的是,美国正在收集来自多个肝硬化患者纵向队列的样本,以验证HCC的候选生物标志物。基于生物标志物的策略有可能成为HCC检测的主要监测方法。