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Cancers (Basel)

Title:		Review and Comparison of Cancer Biomarker Trends in Urine as a Basis for New Diagnostic Pathways
Author(s):		Bax C; Lotesoriere BJ; Sironi S; Capelli L;
Address:		"Politecnico di Milano, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering 'Giulio Natta', piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy. carmen.bax@polimi.it. Politecnico di Milano, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering 'Giulio Natta', piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy"
Journal Title:		Cancers (Basel)
Year:		2019
Volume:		20190825
Issue:		9
Page Number:		-
DOI:		10.3390/cancers11091244
ISSN/ISBN:		2072-6694 (Print) 2072-6694 (Electronic) 2072-6694 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Cancer is one of the major causes of mortality worldwide and its already large burden is projected to increase significantly in the near future with a predicted 22 million new cancer cases and 13 million cancer-related deaths occurring annually by 2030. Unfortunately, current procedures for diagnosis are characterized by low diagnostic accuracies. Given the proved correlation between cancer presence and alterations of biological fluid composition, many researchers suggested their characterization to improve cancer detection at early stages. This paper reviews the information that can be found in the scientific literature, regarding the correlation of different cancer forms with the presence of specific metabolites in human urine, in a schematic and easily interpretable form, because of the huge amount of relevant literature. The originality of this paper relies on the attempt to point out the odor properties of such metabolites, and thus to highlight the correlation between urine odor alterations and cancer presence, which is proven by recent literature suggesting the analysis of urine odor for diagnostic purposes. This investigation aims to evaluate the possibility to compare the results of studies based on different approaches to be able in the future to identify those compounds responsible for urine odor alteration"
Keywords:		cancer diagnosis odor threshold olfaction urine metabolites volatile organic compounds (VOC) volatiles;
Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINEBax, Carmen Lotesoriere, Beatrice Julia Sironi, Selena Capelli, Laura eng Review Switzerland 2019/08/28 Cancers (Basel). 2019 Aug 25; 11(9):1244. doi: 10.3390/cancers11091244"