Validation of Breast Cancer Biomarkers Identified by Mass Spectrometry: Some of the authors of the article cited above respond:

[摘要] We thank Dr. Diamandis for his comments and wish to comment on some of the issues that he raised.First, we want to clarify that it was not the intention of the original discovery paper (1) or of the recent validation paper (2) to determine the suitability of “this [SELDI] technology for cancer diagnostics”. We used surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization (SELDI) technology for biomarker discovery and validation.We do not disagree with Dr. Diamandis’ statement and prediction that candidate biomarkers discovered in serum or plasma by SELDI (and by many other …

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