L'avenir des marqueurs tumoraux : l'exploitation de leur cinétique. Étude CNBH 2004-2006, de la rédaction d'un cahier des charges aux essais des logiciels existants

To promote the interest of the kinetics of tumor markers in the follow-up of cancers, we first evaluated the place of these markers in cancerology with a questionnaire dedicated to oncologists and biologists practising in general hospitals. Then, we listed and compared the software existing between 2002 and 2004 and able to plot kinetics from the raw values of tumor markers. In a second time, we established the necessary conditions for an ideal software. The conclusion of this evaluation was that good tools exist but they have to improve in order to be more practical and widely used by all the intervening experts in cancerology. The kinetic profile of tumor markers must now belong to the medical file of patients suffering from cancer.