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- Title
ReClassification of Patients with Ambiguous CA125 for Optimised Pre-Surgical Triage.
- Authors
Stephens, Andrew N.; Hobbs, Simon J.; Kang, Sung-Woog; Oehler, Martin K.; Jobling, Tom W.; Allman, Richard
- Abstract
Pre-surgical clinical assessment of an adnexal mass is a complex process, and ideally requires accurate and rapid identification of disease status. Gold standard biomarker CA125 is extensively used off-label for this purpose; however its performance is typically inadequate, particularly for the detection of early stage disease and discrimination between benign versus malignant status. We recently described a multi-marker panel (MMP) and associated risk index for the differentiation of benign from malignant ovarian disease. In this study we applied a net reclassification approach to assess the use of MMP index to rescue those cases where low CA125 incorrectly excludes cancer diagnoses, or where benign disease is incorrectly assessed as "high risk" due to elevated CA125. Reclassification of such patients is of significant value to assist in the timely and accurate referral for patients where CA125 titer is uninformative.
- Subjects
ADNEXAL diseases; MEDICAL triage; EARLY diagnosis; OVARIAN diseases; MOSQUITO nets; MEDICAL referrals; CANCER diagnosis
- Publication
Diagnostics (2075-4418), 2024, Vol 14, Issue 7, p671
- ISSN
2075-4418
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/diagnostics14070671