Yamaguchi A, Kurosaka Y, Ohta N, Kamata T, Ishida T, Nishimura G, Katoh M, Kosaka T, Yonemura Y, Miyazaki I
Dept. of Surgery II, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University.
Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 1989 Aug;16(8 Pt 1):2645-50.
Clinical significance of preoperative serum NCC-ST 439 level was studied in 119 cases of colorectal cancer (90 of primary, 29 cases of recurrent). The positive rates for serum NCC-ST 439 were 28.9% in primary and 65.5% in recurrent cases. The false positive rates for benign disease were 5.6%. These rates were low when compared with those for other tumor markers. The positive rates for serum NCC-ST 439 exhibited a strong correlation with wall invasion, lymph node and liver metastases. A combination assay of NCC-ST 439, CEA and CA 19-9 produced a high positive rates as 43.3% in primary and 86.2% in recurrent cases. These results demonstrate that measurement of serum NCC-ST 439 may be useful for cancer staging and improves the diagnostic rate in combination with CEA and CA 19-9.
