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KMID : 0985520170220030114
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Korean Journal of Pancreas and Biliary Tract
2017 Volume.22 No. 3 p.114 ~ p.117
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Assessment of Asymptomatically Increased CA 19-9
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Kim Jai-Hwan
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Abstract
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Health care screening is becoming more popular in Korea as more people are interested in well-being and health. However, there are controversies regarding usefulness of screening. Tumor markers are frequently measured in the health care screening. As a result, many patients end up visiting physicians because of incidentally found increased levels of tumor markers. Carbohydrate antigen (CA) 19-9 is the single most useful tumor marker for pancreatic cancer. Although CA 19-9 is useful for predicting prognosis and evaluating treatment response for pancreatic cancer, CA 19-9 is less useful for screening of pancreatic cancer because of low incidence of pancreatic cancer.
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KEYWORD
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Pancreatic neoplasms, Biomarkers, Tumor, Early detection of cancer, CA 19-9 antigen
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