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CLINICAL PATHOLOGY SCOPE IN CANCER SURVEILLANCE
Siti Boedina Kresno
Dharmais National Cancer Center,
Jakarta Indonesia
The development of molecular biology gives us a deeper understanding of the mechanism and
pathogenesis of disease and the medical science in the 21 st century will therefore be based on the
understanding of disease process at molecular levels. These new trends in the field of oncology
challenges clinical laboratory professionals to provide molecular diagnostic tools.
Cancer surveillance considered for this presentation is not monitoring of cancer trends over time or
collecting and analyzing data on cancer occurrence and risk factors at population levels, but in the
context of testing people who are at increased risk for developing cancer or have previously had cancer
to predict early recurrence or metastasis.
The scope of clinical pathology in surveillance, prediction and prognostication in cancer includes
hereditary cancer as well as sporadic cancer in particular by using lymphocytes for risk assessment of
hereditary cancer and using circulating tumor cells (CTC) and or circulating or cell-free DNA/RNA in
the prognostication of sporadic cancer.
An Indonesian experience in this field will be presented.
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