Abstract
The interest in identifying circulating soluble biomarkers for malignant pleural mesothelioma is quite high. The studies aim at identifying a tool that could enable early detection of the disease before symptoms develop. Blood-based fibulin-3 and osteopontin studies are currently ongoing. Serum concentrations of YKL-40 had a moderate ability to discriminate between mesothelioma and other clinically relevant controls. Despite a large number of biomarkers being reported for mesothelioma in the literature, mesothelin remains the single-best blood-based biomarker for the cancer and is considered to be the ‘gold standard’.
Keywords: Biomarkers, fibulin-3, mesothelin, oseopontin, YKL-40.
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