Identification of Serum Biomarkers for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma by Proteomic Analysis.

The article focuses on a study which assessed the feasibility of mass spectrometry-based protein profiling for differentiating patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) from noncancer patients. The study analyzed serum samples from patients diagnosed with NPC and from noncancer controls using surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF-MS). It concluded that SELDI-TOF-MS combined with a tree analysis model can discriminate NPC from noncancer patients.