The Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan
The Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan.
Anticancer Res. 2020 Jun;40(6):3571-3577. doi: 10.21873/anticanres.14347.
BACKGROUND/AIM: We evaluated urinary levels of porphyrin metabolites, such as uroporphyrin (UP) and coproporphyrin (CP), after 5-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) administration in patients with or without pancreatic cancer (PaC).
Sixty-seven subjects with PaC, 11 with pancreatitis, and 9 with normal pancreas (NP) were enrolled. Urine samples from all subjects were collected prior to ALA administration and at more than 4 hours after ALA administration. We measured the urinary levels of UP and CP by high-performance liquid chromatography analysis.
The PaC group showed significantly higher UP levels compared to NP groups (104.9 nmol/g Cre vs. 53.4 nmol/g Cre, p=0.014). Moreover, PaC patients with long-term survival had significantly lower urinary levels of UP at diagnosis (98.8 nmol/gCre) than the short-term survival group (125.2 nmol/gCre) (p=0.042).
The urinary levels of UP after ALA administration might serve as a promising biomarker for diagnosis and prognosis prediction of PaC.
背景/目的:我们评估了 5-氨基酮戊酸(ALA)给药后有无胰腺癌(PaC)患者尿液中卟啉代谢物(如尿卟啉(UP)和粪卟啉(CP))的水平。
共纳入 67 例 PaC 患者、11 例胰腺炎患者和 9 例正常胰腺(NP)患者。所有患者在 ALA 给药前和 ALA 给药后 4 小时以上采集尿液样本。我们通过高效液相色谱分析测定 UP 和 CP 的尿水平。
与 NP 组相比,PaC 组的 UP 水平明显更高(104.9 nmol/g Cre 比 53.4 nmol/g Cre,p=0.014)。此外,长期生存的 PaC 患者在诊断时的 UP 尿水平明显低于短期生存组(98.8 nmol/gCre 比 125.2 nmol/gCre,p=0.042)。
ALA 给药后 UP 的尿水平可能成为 PaC 诊断和预后预测的有前途的生物标志物。