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Endocr Pathol. 1996;7(2):103-119. doi: 10.1007/BF02739970.

Proliferation Markers and Their Uses in the Study of Endocrine Tumors.

Endocrine pathology

Giuseppe Pelosi, Giuseppe Zamboni

Affiliations

  1. MD, MIAC.

PMID: 12114638 DOI: 10.1007/BF02739970

Abstract

A growing body of literature supports the view that the proliferative activity (PA) of tumor cells is an important prognostic indicator for a variety of different tumors. We examined the role of PA in diagnosis and prediction or malignancy of endocrine tumors (ETs) of pituitary gland, pancreas, thyroid, parathyroid glands, adrenal glands, paraganglia, gastroenteric tract, and lung. The data in the literature indicate that the assessment of PA is not a diagnostic indicator of malignancy especially at the individual case level, whereas it can be useful for identifying subsets of malignant tumors with different aggressiveness potential, as well as for choosing therapeutic options in metatstatic lesions. We hope that, in the near future, multiparametric approaches including PA markers, cell growth and differentiation factors, and oncogenes will yield valuable information for diagnosis and prognosis of ETs also in individual cases.

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