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PROTEOMICS CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
Volume 2, Issue 7-8, Pages 1036-1046Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/prca.200780139
Keywords
biological fluids; biomarkers; ClinProt; MS; renal cell carcinoma
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Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is one of the major causes of cancer death and is radio- and chemoresistant. Urine of 29 healthy subjects and 39 clear cell RCC patients were analyzed using the ClinProt technique to search for possible biomarkers for early RCC diagnosis. A cluster of three signals (marker A = at m/z 1827 +/- 8 Da, marker B = 1914 +/- 8 Da and marker C = 1968 +/- 8 Da) was able to discriminate patients from controls. A receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed values of area under the curve (AUC) higher than 0.9 for marker A and B, corresponding to a sensitivity of 85-90% and a specificity of 90%, while marker C gave a lower AUC (0.84) corresponding to sensitivity of 70% and specificity of 100%. The combination of three markers lead to an improvement in diagnostic efficacy, with specificity and sensitivity of 100% and 95%, respectively, in the training test and of 100% and of 85% in the test experiment. The efficacy of this cluster of signals to distinguish RCC patients grouped by tumor stage showed a sensibility of 100% for patients at the primary tumor 1 stage. One of the signals present in the cluster was identified as a fragment of Tamm-Horsfall protein.
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