First author Michele T. Yip - Schneider, Ph.D., associate research professor
of surgery, and senior author C. Max Schmidt, M.D., Ph.D., MBA, professor
of surgery, biochemistry and molecular
biology, report this is the first cyst fluid protein biomarker that can differentiate serous cystic
neoplasms, a benign type
of cystic lesion, from all other cancerous or precancerous cystic lesions without surgery.