Urinary CE-MS peptide marker pattern for detection of solid tumors

Iwona Belczacka, Agnieszka Latosinska, Justyna Siwy, Jochen Metzger, Axel S. Merseburger, Harald Mischak, Antonia Vlahou, Maria Frantzi, Vera Jankowski*

*Corresponding author for this work
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Abstract

Urinary profiling datasets, previously acquired by capillary electrophoresis coupled to mass-spectrometry were investigated to identify a general urinary marker pattern for detection of solid tumors by targeting common systemic events associated with tumor-related inflammation. A total of 2,055 urinary profiles were analyzed, derived from a) a cancer group of patients (n = 969) with bladder, prostate, and pancreatic cancers, renal cell carcinoma, and cholangiocarcinoma and b) a control group of patients with benign diseases (n = 556), inflammatory diseases (n = 199) and healthy individuals (n = 331). Statistical analysis was conducted in a discovery set of 676 cancer cases and 744 controls. 193 peptides differing at statistically significant levels between cases and controls were selected and combined to a multi-dimensional marker pattern using support vector machine algorithms. Independent validation in a set of 635 patients (293 cancer cases and 342 controls) showed an AUC of 0.82. Inclusion of age as independent variable, significantly increased the AUC value to 0.85. Among the identified peptides were mucins, fibrinogen and collagen fragments. Further studies are planned to assess the pattern value to monitor patients for tumor recurrence. In this proof-of-concept study, a general tumor marker pattern was developed to detect cancer based on shared biomarkers, likely indicative of cancer-related features.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5227
JournalScientific Reports
Volume8
Issue number1
ISSN2045-2322
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.12.2018

Research Areas and Centers

  • Research Area: Luebeck Integrated Oncology Network (LION)

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