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Cancer Manag Res. 2018 Jul 10;10:1947-1958. doi: 10.2147/CMAR.S167036. eCollection 2018.
Direct comparison of five serum biomarkers in early diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma.
Chen H#1, Zhang Y#1,2, Li S#3, Li N1, Chen Y4, Zhang B3, Qu C1, Ding H4, Huang J3,5, Dai M1.
Author information
1
National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, [email protected].
2
Office of Scientific Research, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
3
Liver Research Center, Experimental Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine in Liver Cirrhosis, Beijing, China, [email protected].
4
Department of Gastrointestinal and Hepatology, Beijing You' An Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
5
National Clinical Research Center of Digestive Diseases, Beijing, China, [email protected].
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Contributed equally
Abstract
Background:
Although a number of serum biomarkers for detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have been explored, their exact diagnostic value remains unclear. We aimed to conduct a direct comparison of five representative serum biomarkers for detecting HCC and to derive multi-marker prediction algorithms.
Patients and methods:
In total, 846 patients were recruited from three hospitals in China, including 202 HCC patients, 226 liver cirrhosis patients, 215 chronic hepatitis B virus-infected patients, and 203 healthy volunteers. Serum levels of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), lens culinaris agglutinin-reactive AFP (AFP-L3), des-gamma-carboxyprothrombin (DCP), squamous cell carcinoma antigen, and centromere protein F autoantibody were measured by ELISA. The diagnostic performances of individual biomarkers and multi-marker combinations were evaluated by receiver operating characteristics analysis. The bootstrapping method was adopted to adjust for potential overfitting of all diagnostic indicators.
Results:
DCP exhibited the best diagnostic performance, with areas under the curve (AUC) for detecting HCC of 0.82 (95% CI 0.64-0.80) and sensitivity of 65.2% (95% CI 63.3-82.1%) at 90% specificity. Of note, DCP showed similar diagnostic efficacy for detecting AFP-positive and AFP-negative HCC. After a comprehensive search for multi-marker combinations, a two-marker prediction algorithm including AFP and DCP was constructed and yielded an AUC of 0.87 (95% CI 0.68-0.84) for detecting HCC. In addition, the combination showed good ability in discriminating early-stage HCC and decompensated liver cirrhosis, with an AUC of 0.81 (95% CI 0.75-0.86).
Conclusion:
DCP could be a complementary biomarker in the early diagnosis of HCC. The constructed multi-marker prediction algorithms could contribute toward distinguishing HCC from non-malignant chronic liver diseases.
KEYWORDS:
early detection; liver cirrhosis; prediction model
PMID:
30022853
PMCID:
PMC6044429
DOI:
10.2147/CMAR.S167036 |
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