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CA50 is a kind of sialic acid ester and sialic acid glycoprotein, which generally does not exist in normal tissues. When cells become malignant, glycosylation enzyme is activated, resulting in changes of glycosylation structure on the cell surface and becoming A MARKER of CA50.
The ca 50 tumor marker is a chemical that reflects the presence of a tumour.
Cancer antigen CA50 does not exist in normal adult tissues, which restricted to embryonic tissues, or in the tissue of cancer than in normal tissue, their existence or quantitative change may indicate the nature of the tumour to understand the tumour tissue, cell differentiation and cell function, to help the diagnosis, classification and prognosis judgement and treatment of tumour.