Sputum MicroRNA Profiling: A Novel Approach for the Early Detection of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Roa, Wilson H.; Kim, Julian O.; Razzak, Rene; Du, Hongfei; Guo, Linghong; Singh, Ravinder; Gazala, Sayf; Ghosh, Sunita; Wong, Eric; Joy, Anil A.; Xing, James Z.; Bedard, Eric L.
- Source
- Clinical & Investigative Medicine. Sep2012, Vol. 35 Issue 5, pE271-E281. 11p. 3 Charts, 3 Graphs.
- Subject
- *RNA analysis
*SPUTUM examination
*LUNG cancer diagnosis
*CLUSTER analysis (Statistics)
*POLYMERASE chain reaction
*QUANTITATIVE research
- Language
- ISSN
- 0147-958X
The article focuses on a study which examines the efficiency of Sputum MicroRNA Profling technique in the diagnosis of lung cancer. It mentions several methods including polymerase chain reaction, cluster analysis and statistical analysis which are used as the research methodologies. It also mentions the result which states MicroRNA Profling as an effective method for the disease diagnosis.