Microchips for the diagnosis of cervical cancer

Methods Mol Biol. 2007:385:65-86. doi: 10.1007/978-1-59745-426-1_6.

Abstract

Cancer affects more people than any other disease. About one-third of the world's population is likely to get this diagnosis during their lifetime. Currently, the diagnostic methods for cancer detection are based on visual inspection. The lack of high analytical and clinical specificity and sensitivity makes these methods in many cases inferior to recently developed molecular methods. The increased clinical specificity and sensitivity of these new molecular approaches have great benefits, such as the possibility of implementing the molecular methods in miniaturized systems and enabling easier and faster point-of-care or bedside diagnostics. This chapter provides an introduction to performing clinical trials, screening, and molecular diagnostics against cancer-related markers. In addition, an example of molecular diagnosis of cervical cancer within a microsystem concept will be presented.

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Gene Expression Profiling / instrumentation
  • Gene Expression Profiling / methods
  • Humans
  • Models, Genetic
  • Molecular Diagnostic Techniques / instrumentation
  • Molecular Diagnostic Techniques / methods*
  • Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques / instrumentation
  • Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques / methods
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / instrumentation
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / methods
  • RNA, Messenger / genetics
  • RNA, Messenger / metabolism
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / genetics*

Substances

  • RNA, Messenger