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Tuesday, April 06, 2010

abstract: Apr 5, 2010: Development of a Multimarker Assay for Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer -- JCO



Note: accompanying Editorial notes that this study was comprised of postmenopausal women only
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JCO Early Release, published online ahead of print Apr 5 2010
Journal of Clinical Oncology, 10.1200/JCO.2008.19.2484

Received August 3, 2008
Accepted January 5, 2010

Development of a Multimarker Assay for Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer (reference link for authors)

Purpose: Early detection of ovarian cancer has great promise to improve clinical outcome.
Patients and Methods: Ninety-six serum biomarkers were analyzed in sera from healthy women and from patients with ovarian cancer, benign pelvic tumors, and breast, colorectal, and lung cancers, using multiplex xMAP bead-based immunoassays. A Metropolis algorithm with Monte Carlo simulation (MMC) was used for analysis of the data.
Results: A training set, including sera from 139 patients with early-stage ovarian cancer, 149 patients with late-stage ovarian cancer, and 1,102 healthy women, was analyzed with MMC algorithm and cross validation to identify an optimal biomarker panel discriminating early-stage cancer from healthy controls. The four-biomarker panel providing the highest diagnostic power of 86% sensitivity (SN) for early-stage and 93% SN for late-stage ovarian cancer at 98% specificity (SP) was comprised of CA-125, HE4, CEA, and VCAM-1. This model was applied to an independent blinded validation set consisting of sera from 44 patients with early-stage ovarian cancer, 124 patients with late-stage ovarian cancer, and 929 healthy women, providing unbiased estimates of 86% SN for stage I and II and 95% SN for stage III and IV disease at 98% SP. This panel was selective for ovarian cancer showing SN of 33% for benign pelvic disease, SN of 6% for breast cancer, SN of 0% for colorectal cancer, and SN of 36% for lung cancer.
Conclusion: A panel of CA-125, HE4, CEA, and VCAM-1, after additional validation, could serve as an initial stage in a screening strategy for epithelial ovarian cancer.