Main description:

Early diagnosis of cancer and other non-oncological disorders gives a significant advantage for curing the disease and improving patient's life expectancy. Recent advances in biosensor-based techniques which are designed for specific biomarkers can be exploited for early diagnosis of diseases. Biosensor Based Advanced Cancer Diagnostics covers all available biosensor-based approaches and comprehensive technologies; along with their application in diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic management of various oncological disorders. Besides this, current challenges and future aspects of these diagnostic approaches have also been discussed. This book offers a view of recent advances and is also helpful for designing new biosensor-based technologies in the field of medical science, engineering and biomedical technology.

Biosensor Based Advanced Cancer Diagnostics helps biomedical engineers, researchers, molecular biologists, oncologists and clinicians with the development of point of care devices for disease diagnostics and prognostics. It also provides information on developing user friendly, sensitive, stable, accurate, low cost and minimally invasive modalities which can be adopted from lab to clinics. This book covers in-depth knowledge of disease biomarkers that can be exploited for designing and development of a range of biosensors. The editors have summarized the potential cancer biomarkers and methodology for their detection, plus transferring the developed system to clinical application by miniaturization and required integration with microfluidic systems.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Background, state-of-art for design and development of biosensor-based techniques strategy 2. Types of Biomarkers associated with cancer and other disease associated health risk factors 3. Basic concept for Biosensor-based devices 4. Type of Biosensors-based on Biorecognition element 5. Type of Biosensors-based on transducers 6. Multidisciplinary approach to device design 7. Fabrication technique of Biosensor-devices 8. Lab-on-chip devices-based type of cancer cell targeting 9. Challenges and future prospects and commercial viability of Biosensor-based diagnosis