Abstract
To evaluate the diagnostic and prognostic potential of preoperative serum CA-125 and HE4 levels in patients with endometrial cancer. Prospective case-control study of 133 women who underwent surgical treatment at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana (64 patients with endometrial cancer, 69 control patients with prolapsed uterus or myoma). Serum CA-125 and HE4 levels were determined using electrochemiluminescent assays. Serum CA-125 and HE4 levels were significantly higher in patients with endometrial cancer, compared to the controls (p=2.67×10-4, 1.36×10-7, respectively). A diagnostic model that combines serum CA-125 and HE4 levels and body mass index separated patients with endometrial cancer from controls, with AUC of 0.804, sensitivity of 66.7%, and specificity of 84.6%. Serum HE4 levels showed good prognostic potential and stratified the patients according to presence/absence of deep myometrial invasion (p=0.001) or lymphovascular invasion (p=0.003), with AUCs of 0.78 and 0.81, respectively. In low-risk patients with grade 1 and 2 endometrioid cancer for whom lymphadenectomy can be avoided, HE4 allowed stratification according to deep myometrial invasion (p=3.39×10-4), with AUC of 0.84. Although median HE4 levels were higher in patients with lymphovascular invasion, this difference did not reach significance (p=0.06). A model based on preoperative serum CA-125 and HE4 levels and body mass index has good diagnostic accuracy for separation of patients with endometrial cancer and control patients. In patients with endometrial cancer, serum HE4 levels allow prediction of deep myometrial and lymphovascular invasion.
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