TY - JOUR
T1 - A Combination of MUC5AC and CA19-9 Improves the Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer
T2 - A Multicenter Study
AU - Kaur, Sukhwinder
AU - Smith, Lynette M.
AU - Patel, Asish
AU - Menning, Melanie
AU - Watley, Duncan C.
AU - Malik, Saad S.
AU - Krishn, Shiv Ram
AU - Mallya, Kavita
AU - Aithal, Abhijit
AU - Sasson, Aaron R.
AU - Johansson, Sonny L.
AU - Jain, Maneesh
AU - Singh, Shailender
AU - Guha, Sushovan
AU - Are, Chandrakanth
AU - Raimondo, Massimo
AU - Hollingsworth, Michael A.
AU - Brand, Randall E.
AU - Batra, Surinder K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 by the American College of Gastroenterology.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - OBJECTIVES:Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a lethal malignancy that lacks specific diagnostic markers. The present study explores the diagnostic potential of the most differentially overexpressed secretory mucin MUC5AC alone and in combination with CA19-9 using multi-center training and validation sets.METHODS:The expression of MUC5AC in benign pancreatic pathologies, PC precursor lesions, primary PC tissues and metastatic lesions was evaluated by immunohistochemistry. Circulating MUC5AC levels were measured using sandwich ELISA assay developed in-house, and CA19-9 was measured using radioimmunoassay. A combined training set (n=346) was used to evaluate the diagnostic (n=241) and predictive (n=105, total samples 201 from pre- and post-surgical and chemotherapy set) significance of MUC5AC. Results were further validated with a pre-defined cut-off value using independent sets from the Mayo Clinic (n=94) and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (n=321).RESULTS:Tissue expression analyses indicated the de novo expression of MUC5AC in pancreatic intraepithelial precursor lesions 1A (PanIN1A); the expression was maintained through all stages of progression to invasive adenocarcinoma. The median circulating MUC5AC levels in patients with resectable early-stage PC (EPC) (stage 1/2; 67.2 ng/ml, IQR: 23.9-382.1) and unresectable late-stage PC (LPC) (stage 3/4; 389.7 ng/ml, IQR: 87.7-948.6) were significantly higher compared with (P-value ≤0.0001) benign controls (BC) (7.2 ng/ml, IQR: 0.4-26.5) and (P-value ≤0.0001) chronic pancreatitis (CP) controls (8.4 ng/ml, IQR: 1.5-19.2). In the diagnostic training set (n=241), MUC5AC efficiently differentiated EPC from healthy controls (HC) (83%/80% sensitive (SN)/specific (SP)), BC (67%/87% SN/SP), and CP (83%/77% SN/SP). Independent validation sets from the Mayo Clinic and UPMC confirmed the diagnostic potential of MUC5AC to differentiate EPC from BC (68%/73%; 65%/83%) and CP (68%/79%; 65%/72%). Furthermore, MUC5AC and CA19-9 combination significantly improved (p-value < 0.001) the diagnostic accuracy for differentiating resectable cases from controls.CONCLUSIONS:MUC5AC is a valuable diagnostic biomarker, either alone or in combination with CA19-9, to differentiate PC from CP and benign controls.
AB - OBJECTIVES:Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a lethal malignancy that lacks specific diagnostic markers. The present study explores the diagnostic potential of the most differentially overexpressed secretory mucin MUC5AC alone and in combination with CA19-9 using multi-center training and validation sets.METHODS:The expression of MUC5AC in benign pancreatic pathologies, PC precursor lesions, primary PC tissues and metastatic lesions was evaluated by immunohistochemistry. Circulating MUC5AC levels were measured using sandwich ELISA assay developed in-house, and CA19-9 was measured using radioimmunoassay. A combined training set (n=346) was used to evaluate the diagnostic (n=241) and predictive (n=105, total samples 201 from pre- and post-surgical and chemotherapy set) significance of MUC5AC. Results were further validated with a pre-defined cut-off value using independent sets from the Mayo Clinic (n=94) and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (n=321).RESULTS:Tissue expression analyses indicated the de novo expression of MUC5AC in pancreatic intraepithelial precursor lesions 1A (PanIN1A); the expression was maintained through all stages of progression to invasive adenocarcinoma. The median circulating MUC5AC levels in patients with resectable early-stage PC (EPC) (stage 1/2; 67.2 ng/ml, IQR: 23.9-382.1) and unresectable late-stage PC (LPC) (stage 3/4; 389.7 ng/ml, IQR: 87.7-948.6) were significantly higher compared with (P-value ≤0.0001) benign controls (BC) (7.2 ng/ml, IQR: 0.4-26.5) and (P-value ≤0.0001) chronic pancreatitis (CP) controls (8.4 ng/ml, IQR: 1.5-19.2). In the diagnostic training set (n=241), MUC5AC efficiently differentiated EPC from healthy controls (HC) (83%/80% sensitive (SN)/specific (SP)), BC (67%/87% SN/SP), and CP (83%/77% SN/SP). Independent validation sets from the Mayo Clinic and UPMC confirmed the diagnostic potential of MUC5AC to differentiate EPC from BC (68%/73%; 65%/83%) and CP (68%/79%; 65%/72%). Furthermore, MUC5AC and CA19-9 combination significantly improved (p-value < 0.001) the diagnostic accuracy for differentiating resectable cases from controls.CONCLUSIONS:MUC5AC is a valuable diagnostic biomarker, either alone or in combination with CA19-9, to differentiate PC from CP and benign controls.
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U2 - 10.1038/ajg.2016.482
DO - 10.1038/ajg.2016.482
M3 - Article
C2 - 27845339
AN - SCOPUS:84995469381
SN - 0002-9270
VL - 112
SP - 172
EP - 183
JO - American Journal of Gastroenterology
JF - American Journal of Gastroenterology
IS - 1
ER -