Badgwell Donna, Lu Zhen, Cole Laurence, Fritsche Herbert, Atkinson Edward N, Somers Elizabeth, Allard Jeffrey, Moore Richard G, Lu Karen H, Bast Robert C
Department of Experimental Therapeutics, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Box 355, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, and Program in Women's Oncology, Women's and Infants' Hospital, Providence, RI 02905, USA.
Gynecol Oncol. 2007 Sep;106(3):490-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2007.04.022. Epub 2007 May 25.
Early detection of ovarian cancer should improve overall survival. Multiple serum markers have been evaluated as possible tests to detect early stage disease, but few urine markers have been studied. Mesothelin has been detected in serum from patients with ovarian cancer, but has not been previously reported in urine.
Mesothelin was assayed in the serum and in the urine from 28 patients with early stage (I/II) invasive epithelial ovarian cancers, 111 with advanced stage (III/IV) invasive disease and 19 with tumors of low malignant potential. Marker values have been compared to those in healthy controls and 115 patients with benign pelvic masses. Thresholds were set to include 95% of mesothelin values for 127 sera and 89 urines from healthy women. Urine values were considered: (1) as assayed; (2) normalized using the ratio of serum to urine creatinine; and (3) normalized using the Cockroft-Gault formula for glomerular filtration rate (GFR). Urines were also assayed for human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) free beta subunit and beta subunit core fragment and similarly normalized.
Optimal sensitivity for early stage disease was obtained when urine mesothelin was normalized using GFR. A greater fraction of patients with early stage disease was detected with the mesothelin urine assay (42%) than with the serum assay (12%). Similarly, 75% of patients with advanced ovarian cancer had elevated mesothelin in urine compared to 48% in serum. Serum and urine levels of mesothelin correlated for early (p=0.02) and late (p<0.001) disease. Urine mesothelin exhibited greater sensitivity for early stage ovarian cancer than did hCG free beta subunit or beta subunit core fragment and complementarity was not observed.
Urine mesothelin deserves further evaluation as a biomarker for detection of early stage ovarian cancer in combination with other urinary markers.
早期发现卵巢癌应能提高总体生存率。多种血清标志物已被评估作为检测早期疾病的可能检测方法,但很少有尿液标志物被研究。间皮素已在卵巢癌患者的血清中被检测到,但此前尚未在尿液中报道。
对28例早期(I/II期)浸润性上皮性卵巢癌患者、111例晚期(III/IV期)浸润性疾病患者和19例低恶性潜能肿瘤患者的血清和尿液进行间皮素检测。将标志物值与健康对照者以及115例良性盆腔肿块患者的标志物值进行比较。设定阈值以纳入127份健康女性血清和89份尿液中间皮素值的95%。尿液值被考虑为:(1)按检测值;(2)使用血清与尿肌酐比值进行标准化;(3)使用Cockcroft-Gault公式计算肾小球滤过率(GFR)进行标准化。还对尿液进行人绒毛膜促性腺激素(hCG)游离β亚基和β亚基核心片段检测,并进行类似的标准化。
当使用GFR对尿液间皮素进行标准化时,可获得早期疾病的最佳敏感性。与血清检测(12%)相比,间皮素尿液检测发现更大比例的早期疾病患者(42%)。同样,75%的晚期卵巢癌患者尿液中间皮素升高,而血清中这一比例为48%。早期(p=0.0