TY - JOUR AU - Traeger, Lisa AU - Ellermann, Ines AU - Wiethoff, Helene AU - Ihbe, Janina AU - Gallitz, Inka AU - Eveslage, Maria AU - Moritz, Rudolf AU - Herrmann, Edwin AU - Schrader, Andres Jan AU - Steinbicker, Andrea U. PY - 2019 DA - 2019/01/15 TI - Serum Hepcidin and GDF-15 levels as prognostic markers in urothelial carcinoma of the upper urinary tract and renal cell carcinoma JO - BMC Cancer SP - 74 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Cancer is a life-threatening disease that causes every fourth death. It is often hard to determine the time point of progression. Therefore, biomarkers for cancer entities that indicate disease progression or aggressiveness and thereby guide therapeutic decisions are required. Unfortunately, reliable biomarkers are rare. In this study, the potential of serum hepcidin and serum GDF-15 as biomarkers that correlate with patient’s survival in the two entities upper urinary tract urothelial carcinomas (UUTUC) and renal cell carcinoma (RCC) were analyzed. SN - 1471-2407 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-019-5278-0 DO - 10.1186/s12885-019-5278-0 ID - Traeger2019 ER -