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Abstract
More than 500,000 new patients are diagnosed every year with
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) worldwide. Clusterin (apolipoprotein J) is a
multifunctional glycoprotein exists in almost all mammalian tissue and most
human body fluid. Recently, few studies have been done to evaluate serum
clusterin role as a biomarker for diagnosis viral related hepatocellular carcinoma.
The aim of this study is to evaluate the potential usefulness of clusterin as a new
biomarker for diagnosis virus C-related hepatocellular carcinoma.
Methods: Twenty-nine patients with HCC, twenty-nine patients with liver
cirrhosis and thirty healthy controls were enrolled in the study. Estimation of
serum clusterin was done by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).