Overview

This book shows investigation of various compounds to see whether they cou1d be used as markers in diagnosis of skin and kidney cancer.Thesecompounds inc1ude total. and bound sialic acid, the diagnostic use fULness of sial.ic acid found in this study was quite clear and was comparable to skincancer patients the resul.tswas false positive.The diagnostic ofTSA of skin cancer patients elevated levels with false positive.A comparative studies betweenplasma LASA and levels of CEA of cancer patients where characterized by elevated CEA.. The results indicate that diagnostic effectiveness of sialic acid was better than CEA.The data presented in this study showed that serum protein-bound hexose was increased in sera. of patients with skin cancer but, it may not specific enough to be of good diagnostic teet for skin cancer, while the determin ation of seromucoid was more specific than protein-boundhexose and it could be helpful with other diagnostic tests for diagnosis of cancer..