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| The main form of thymidine kinase is an S phase protein, that is present in the cell only during cell division. After normal cell division, it is not released to the body fluids. Malignant cell division releases small amounts of thymidine kinase to the body fluids, that can thus be used to evaluate the rate of malignant cell division. Without the malignant cell division, there would be no malignancy, and therefore the determination of thymidine kinase focusses on the most fundamental characteristic of cancer. Therefore, monitoring cell division as a means of early warning may be the most effective means of screening for cancer. And because you are measuring cell division growth, this is supplementary to traditional tumor markers. |
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