This website is a collaborative initiative of basic scientists, doctors and producers in the field of tumor markers. On this website the members of the EGTM try to provide information for both patients and professionals on the interpretation of the laboratory results on tumor markers.
We try to achieve this goal by providing compact guidelines for professionals and additional explanatory texts that can be used by patients to discuss with their doctors.
On the other hand doctors may find these guidelines on tumor markers also usefull to explain to their patients how and why they use tumor markers in some conditions but not in other.
The European Group on Tumor Markers (EGTM) is an ad hoc group of European-based clinical (bio)chemists, pathologists, physicians, surgeons and scientists from the diagnostics industry with an interest in tumor markers.
Amongst its main aims are:
Prof. Barak Vivian, Chair
Prof. Duffy Joe, Member
European scientists from both hospital or university laboratories and from companies involved in the development of tumour marker tests, have been working together for several years in an informal group originating from the "Hamburg Symposia".
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