Significance of serum human HE4 and CA 125 for diagnosis of epithelial ovarian cancer / 国际检验医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the value of HE4 ,CA125 in the diagnosis of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) .Methods A to‐tal of 54 samples with epithelial ovarian cancer ,64 suspicious benign pelvic mass ,and 60 health controls were consecutively enrolled in this study .Results Good diagnostic performance in discriminating benign from EOC patients was obtained for CA125 and HE4 . Serum level of HE4 of the patients in the three group were 189 .94 pmol/L ,56 .74 pmol/L and 46 .36 pmol/L .Levels of CA125 were 89 .39 U/L ,45 .11 U/L and 34 .24 U/L .There were stastically significant differences between the groups(P<0 .05) .The ser‐um HE4 and CA125 levels of the patients with ovarian cancer at stage Ⅲ ,Ⅳ(HE4=236 .25 pmol/L ,CA125=206 .35 U/L) were significantly higher than the cases at stage Ⅰ ,Ⅱ(HE4=96 .36 pmol/L ,CA125=67 .8 U/L P<0 .05) .Benign pelvic mass as con‐trol ,the specificity (SP) was 86 .6% ,sensitivity (SN) was 82 .6% ,positive predictive value and negative predictive value of the ser‐um HE4 were 85 .71% ,71 .67% ,73 .84% ,and 84 .31% respectively .SN of CA125 was 86 .67% ,higher than that of HE4 (71 .67% ,P<0 .01) .The area under curves (AUC) of HE4 was 0 .87 higher than that of CA125 (0 .81) ,(P<0 .01) .Combing de‐tection of ovarian cancer was higher than that of HE4 and CA125 alone .SP was 95 .15% ,negative predictive value was 92 .13%(P<0 .01) .Conclusion Overall ,the level of serum CA125 and HE4 increase significantly ,which showes well diagnostic perform‐ance to EOC from benign diseases .The combined detection of CA125 and HE4 could improve the diagnostic power in cervical cancer prominently ,so it has great reference value in the diagnosis of epithelial ovarian cancer .