Monitoring the treatment outcome in endometrial cancer patients by CEA and TATI

Tumour Biology : the Journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine
Barbara KozakiewiczMałgorzata Stefaniak

Abstract

An attempt was made to compare the usefulness of determining markers carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and tumor-associated trypsin inhibitor (TATI) in endometrial cancer patients in whom recurrence or distant metastasis was diagnosed in observation after treatment. The study included 316 patients aged 32-81, average age of 61 years, SD = 8.72, with diagnosed endometrial cancer, treated between 1994 and 1995 at the Oncology Center in Warsaw and then under observation from 4 months to 17 years after completion of treatment. The levels of the markers TATI and CEA were assessed from the first five serum samples taken during postoperative radiotherapy and in the initial period of observation after completed treatment. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were generated, determining the sensitivity and specificity of both CEA and TATI in patients who experienced treatment failure, i.e., recurrence and distant metastasis. Assessing the sensitivity of the marker CEA, it was found that if in the third sample, i.e., during radiation therapy, the marker level increased by more than 20 % compared with the first sample, then recurrence of cancer occurred during the observation period in 75.9 % of patients and metastatic occurred in ...Continue Reading

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