Panel of Serum Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Lung Cancer

Purpose Currently, a blood test for lung cancer does not exist. Serum biomarkers that could aid clinicians in making case management decisions would be enormously valuable. We used two proteomic platforms and a literature search to select candidate serum markers for the diagnosis of lung cancer. Methods We initially assayed six serum proteins, four discovered by proteomics and two previously known to be cancer associated, on a training set of...