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- Title
Assessment of Serum Pepsinogens with and without Co-Testing with Gastrin-17 in Gastric Cancer Risk Assessment—Results from the GISTAR Pilot Study.
- Authors
Robles, Claudia; Rudzite, Dace; Polaka, Inese; Sjomina, Olga; Tzivian, Lilian; Kikuste, Ilze; Tolmanis, Ivars; Vanags, Aigars; Isajevs, Sergejs; Liepniece-Karele, Inta; Razuka-Ebela, Danute; Parshutin, Sergej; Murillo, Raul; Herrero, Rolando; Young Park, Jin; Leja, Marcis
- Abstract
Introduction––Serum pepsinogen tests for gastric cancer screening have been debated for decades. We assessed the performance of two pepsinogen assays with or without gastrin-17 for the detection of different precancerous lesions alone or as a composite endpoint in a Latvian cohort. Methods––Within the intervention arm of the GISTAR population-based study, participants with abnormal pepsinogen values by ELISA or latex-agglutination tests, or abnormal gastrin-17 by ELISA and a subset of subjects with all normal biomarker values were referred for upper endoscopy with biopsies. Performance of biomarkers, corrected by verification bias, to detect five composite outcomes based on atrophy, intestinal metaplasia, dysplasia or cancer was explored. Results––Data from 1045 subjects were analysed, of those 273 with normal biomarker results. Both pepsinogen assays showed high specificity (>93%) but poor sensitivity (range: 18.4–31.1%) that slightly improved when lesions were restricted to corpus location (40.5%) but decreased when dysplasia and prevalent cancer cases were included (23.8%). Adding gastrin-17 detection, sensitivity reached 33–45% while specificity decreased (range: 61.1–62%) and referral rate for upper endoscopy increased to 38.6%. Conclusions––Low sensitivity of pepsinogen assays is a limiting factor for their use in population-based primary gastric cancer screening, however their high specificity could be useful for triage.
- Subjects
STOMACH cancer; DISEASE risk factors; EARLY detection of cancer; PEPSINOGEN; RISK assessment
- Publication
Diagnostics (2075-4418), 2022, Vol 12, Issue 7, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2075-4418
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/diagnostics12071746