Cancer Diagnostics

Part I: Introduction General Considerations in the Use and Application of Laboratory Tests for the Evaluation of Cancer Robert M. Nakamura and Wayne W. Grody New Insights and Future Advances in Cancer Diagnostics: Limitations of Conventional Tumor Markers Yasushi Kasahara and Yutaka Tsukada The Changing Role of the Pathologist in the Management of the Cancer Patient Raymond B. Nagle Part II: Serological Tumor Markers Types of Circulating Tumor Markers and Their Clinical Applications James T. Wu Identification of Risk Factors for Early Neoplasm James T. Wu Emerging Circulating Tumor Markers James T. Wu Prostate Cancer Markers: From Discovery to the Clinic Judith A. Finlay, Stephen D. Mikolajczyk, Thomas M. Pribyl, R. Bruce Wallace, and Harry G. Rittenhouse Serum Tumor Marker Test Profile in Testicular Germ-Cell Tumors Frank J. Liu, Robert M. Nakamura, C. Howard Tseng, and Kevin S. Liu Autoantibodies, Autoimmunity, and Cancers: Markers for Identification of Early Stages of Tumors Robert M. Nakamura and Eng M. Tan Part III: Cellular Tumor Markers. MHC Tetramers: A Tool for Direct Ex Vivo Detection and Enumeration of Tumor-Specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes Jennie C. C. Chang, Ferdynand Kos, Charles T. Nugent, and Kristine Kuus-Reichel New Applications of Flow Cytometry in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy Sophie Song and Faramarz Naeim Molecular Diagnostics in Neoplastic Hematopathology Daniel A. Arber HER2 and Topoisomerase IIa in Breast Carcinoma Kenneth J. Bloom Study of Sentinel Lymph Nodes in the Staging of Malignant Neoplasms Alice A. Roberts and Alistair J. Cochran A Marker for Early Diagnosis of Lung Cancer: The Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein A2/B1 (hnRNP A2/B1) Jordi Tauler, Alfredo Martínez, andJames L.Mulshine Part IV: Molecular and Genetic Tumor Markers Molecular Techniques in Cancer Diagnosis and Management Jeffrey S. Ross, Karen Gray, Rebecca Mosher, and James Stec DNA Repair Defects in Cancer Ramune Reliene and Robert H. Schiestl Chromosomal and