Mercy BioAnalytics Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts.
Mercy BioAnalytics Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts.
J Mol Diagn. 2024 Dec;26(12):1129-1148. doi: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2024.09.001. Epub 2024 Sep 24.
The low incidence of ovarian cancer (OC) dictates that any screening strategy needs to be both highly sensitive and highly specific. This study explored the utility of detecting multiple colocalized proteins or glycosylation epitopes on single tumor-associated extracellular vesicles from blood. The novel Mercy Halo Ovarian Cancer Test (OC Test) uses immunoaffinity capture of tumor-associated extracellular vesicles, followed by proximity-ligation real-time quantitative PCR to detect combinations of up to three biomarkers to maximize specificity, and measures multiple combinations to maximize sensitivity. A high-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC) case-control training set of EDTA plasma samples from 397 women was used to lock down the test design, the data interpretation algorithm, and the cutoff between cancer and noncancer. Performance was verified and compared with cancer antigen 125 in an independent blinded case-control set of serum samples from 390 women (132 controls, 66 HGSC, 83 non-HGSC OC, and 109 benign). In the verification study, the OC Test showed a specificity of 97.0% (128/132; 95% CI, 92.4%-99.6%), a HGSC sensitivity of 97.0% (64/66; 95% CI, 87.8%-99.2%), and an area under the curve of 0.97 (95% CI, 0.93-0.99) and detected 73.5% (61/83; 95% CI, 62.7%-82.6%) of the non-HGSC OC cases. This test exhibited fewer false positives in subjects with benign ovarian tumors, nonovarian cancers, and inflammatory conditions when compared with cancer antigen 125. The combined sensitivity and specificity of this new test suggests that it may have potential in OC screening.
卵巢癌(OC)的发病率较低,这意味着任何筛查策略都需要既高度敏感又高度特异。本研究探索了检测血液中单肿瘤相关细胞外囊泡上多个共定位蛋白或糖基化表位的效用。新型 Mercy Halo 卵巢癌测试(OC 测试)使用肿瘤相关细胞外囊泡的免疫亲和捕获,随后进行邻近连接实时定量 PCR 检测多达三种生物标志物的组合,以最大限度地提高特异性,并测量多种组合以最大限度地提高敏感性。使用来自 397 名女性的 EDTA 血浆样本的高级别浆液性癌(HGSC)病例对照训练集来确定测试设计、数据解释算法和癌症与非癌症之间的截止值。在来自 390 名女性(132 名对照、66 名 HGSC、83 名非 HGSC OC 和 109 名良性)的独立盲法病例对照血清样本验证研究中比较了性能。在验证研究中,OC 测试的特异性为 97.0%(128/132;95%CI,92.4%-99.6%)、HGSC 敏感性为 97.0%(64/66;95%CI,87.8%-99.2%)和曲线下面积为 0.97(95%CI,0.93-0.99),检测到 83 名非 HGSC OC 病例中的 73.5%(61/83;95%CI,62.7%-82.6%)。与癌抗原 125 相比,该测试在良性卵巢肿瘤、非卵巢癌和炎症性疾病患者中显示出较少的假阳性。该新型测试的联合敏感性和特异性表明,它可能具有 OC 筛查的潜力。