F J Xu

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus
review 1998
CA 125: the past and the future
The International journal of biological markers ·doi:10.1177/172460089801300402

Over the last 15 years, substantial progress has been made in understanding the potential and the limitations of the CA 125 assay. More than 2000 papers have been published concerning laboratory and clinical studies of CA 125. The original …

article 1994
OVX1 as a marker for early stage endometrial carcinoma
Cancer ·doi:10.1002/1097-0142(19940401)73:7<1855::aid-cncr2820730713>3.0.co;2-#

BACKGROUND: Endometrial carcinoma is generally diagnosed only after the onset of postmenopausal bleeding. Although most patients with Stage I disease can be cured, the prognosis worsens significantly when the tumor is no longer confined to …

article 1991
Peritoneal fluid and plasma levels of human macrophage colony- stimulating factor in relation to peritoneal fluid macrophage content
Blood ·doi:10.1182/blood.v78.2.513.513

The peritoneal fluid (PF) of women with infertility (especially in the presence of endometriosis) contains increased numbers of leukocytes, 90% to 95% of which are macrophages. The high numbers of peritoneal macrophages presumably result fr…