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Serum CA125, CA199 and CEA combined detection for epithelial ovarian cancer diagnosis: A meta-analysis

  • Junhong Guo , Jiangtao Yu , Xiaojie Song und Haixia Mi EMAIL logo
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Abstract

Objective

To evaluate the diagnostic value of combination detection of serum cancer antigen 125 (CA125), carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA199) and carci noembryonic antigen(CEA) in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer by pooling the open published studies according to meta-analysis method.

Methods

Diagnostic studies related to combination detection of serum CA125, CA199 and CEA in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer were electronic searched in the databases of PubMed, Cochrane, Google scholar, EMBASE, ISI Web of Knowledge and CNKI by two independent reviewers. The combined diagnostic sensitivity, specificity, positive likely hood ratio (+LR), negative likely hood ratio (-LR), diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) were pooled by Med DiSc1.4 software.

Results

Twelve prospective diagnostic publications were finally fulfilled the inclusion criteria and were included in this meta-analysis. The pooled diagnostic sensitivity specificity, positive likely hood ratio, negative likely hood ratio, diagnostic odds ratio, and AUC were 0.90 (95%CI: 0.80 to 0.92), 0.83 (95%CI: 0.80 to 0.86), 5.35(95%CI:3.90 to 7.33), 0.13 (95%CI: 0.10 to 0.16), 48.53 (95%CI: 29.91 to 78.72) and 0.92 (95%C: 0.89 to 0.94) respectively by fixed or random effect model. No publication bias was found according to the funnel plot and line regression test (t=-1.34, P=0.21).

Conclusion

Combination detection serum CA125, CA199 and CEA was a promising biomarker forepithelial ovarian cancer diagnosis with relative high sensitivity and specificity.

Keywords: Epithelial ovarian cancer; Diagnosis; CA125,CA199; CEA; Meta-analysis

1 Introduction

In the past two decades, several serum biomarkers for epithelial ovarian cancer diagnosis have been studied, such as Ca125, Ca199, CEA, HE4 and et al [1]. Ca125 is also known as mucin 16 or MUC16, a protein that in humans is encoded by the MUC16 gene. It was found serum Ca125 had been elevated in patients with specific types of cancers, which could be a potential biomarker [2]. Several studies have discussed the serum Ca125 level in ovarian cancer patients and found about 80% of advanced patients had elevated levels of Ca125 in their blood [3,4]. However, studies also found that serum Ca125 can also elevated in individuals without ovarian cancer which made the diagnostic specificity relative low. Previously studies [5,6] indicated Ca199 can be elevated in gastrointestinal cancer, such as colorectal cancer, esophageal cancer and pancreatic cancer. Published study [7] showed elevated Ca199 also can be detected in ovarian cancer patients in their bloods. CEA was one of the most used serum biomarker for solid malignant carcinoma diagnosis such as lung cancer, esophageal cancer colorectal cancer and epithelial ovarian cancer. However, the diagnostic sensitivity or specificity was not high enough of a single serum biomarker of Ca125, Ca199 or CEA for diagnosis of epithelial ovarian cancer. Then, combination detection several serum biomarkers may increase the diagnostic value [8-10]. Several diagnostic studies had discussed the combination detection serum CA125, CA199 and CEA in epithelial ovarian cancer patients with relative high sensitivity and specificity [11-13]. However, because of the small sample size of each individual study, the conclusion was not consistent. In this meta-analysis, we searched the related databases and included open published studies related to combination detection serum CA125, CA199 and CEA in diagnostic epithelial ovarian cancer in order to provide more evidence for its clinical use.

2 Material and methods

2.1 Publication searching

Diagnostic studies related to combination detection serum CA125, CA199 and CEA in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer were electronic searched in the databases of PubMed, Cochrane, Google scholar, EMBASE, ISI Web of Knowledge and CNKI by two independent reviewers (Guo Junhong&Yu Jiangtao). The searching words were “ epithelial ovarian cancer”, “malignant ovary tumor”, “ca 125 antigen”, “ca 125”, “cancer antigen 125”, “CA199”, “carbohydrate antigen 19-9”, “CEA”, “carcino-embryonic antigen”. All potential relevant studies were assessed in detail and additional and all citations of the included articles were further evaluated in order to identify additional suitable studies.

2.2 Data extraction

The data of each included study was extracted by two reviewers Guo JH & Mi HX independently. The general character such as year of publication, first and corresponding author and control type were extracted from each of the included studies. The case number of the true positive (tp), false positive (fp), false negative (fn) and true negative(tn) of the each study were also recorded and cross checked by two reviewers.

2.3 Statistical analysis

Med DiSc1.4 (http://www.biomedsearch.com/nih/Meta-DiSc-software-meta-analysis.) and Stata11.0 (http://www.stata.com; Stata Corporation, College Station, TX) statistical software were used to do all the statistical analysis. Statistical heterogeneity across the included studies was assessed by chi-square/Cochran-Q test and demonstrated by I2 for the effect size of sensitivity, specificity, positive likely hood ratio, negative likely hood ratio and diagnostic odds ratio. Without statistical heterogeneity, the effect size was pooled by fixed effect model, otherwise it was pooled by random effect model. P<0.05 was considered as statistical significant.

3 Results

3.1 Publication searching results

After searching the related databases, 712 papers were initially identified. And 661 articles were excluded after reading the title and abstract. 39 publications were excluded after reading the whole text paper. Finally 12 prospective diagnostic publications were fulfilled the inclusion criteria and were included in this meta-analysis [11-22]. Six studies used benign ovarian tumor as the control group, 3 publications used healthy subjects as the control group and left 3 articles used mixed subjects as the controls. The general characteristics of included 12 papers were demonstrated in Table 1.

Table 1

General characteristics of included studies

First authorYearTPFPFNTNSenSepControl type
Luo XH200626163360.900.69Benign ovarian tumor
Shao JL200736147240.840.63Benign ovarian tumor
Song XL200740102800.950.89Mixed
Pu ZY20105048460.860.92Healthy subjects
Li L20106936470.920.94Healthy subjects
Huang F201037133820.930.86Mixed
Qian M20104246360.880.90Benign ovarian tumor
Liu L20117778540.910.89Benign ovarian tumor
Zhang FL201128212520.930.71Mixed
Yu B20113784330.900.80Healthy subjects
Jiang J201471169640.890.80Benign ovarian tumor
Zhang T2016592451350.920.85Benign ovarian tumor

3.2 Statistical heterogeneity

Statistical heterogeneity across the included studies was assessed by chi-square/Cochran-Q test and demonstrated by I2 for the effect size of sensitivity, specificity, positive likely hood ratio, negative likely hood ratio and diagnostic odds ratio. Significant heterogeneity was found in the effect size of specificity, positive likely hood ratio and diagnostic odds ratio(P 003<0.05). These effect size were pooled by random effect model, Table 2.

Table 2

Statisticalheterogeneityevaluationby chi-square/ Cochran-Q test

Effect sizeChi-square/Cochran-QI2 (%)P
Sensitivity5.930.00.88
Specificity36.9270.20.0001
Positive likely hood ratio43.5274.70.0000
Negative likely hood ratio8.840.00.63
Diagnostic odds ratio20.6246.60.03

3.3 Pooled sensitivity

Without significant statistical heterogeneity, diagnostic sensitivity was pooled by fixed effect model. The pooled diagnostic sensitivity of combination detection serum CA125, CA199 and CEA for epithelial ovarian cancer was 0.90 (95%CI: 0.80 to 0.92), Figure 1.

Figure 1 Forest plot for diagnostic sensitivity of ovarian cancer by combination detection serum CA125 CA199 and CEA.
Figure 1

Forest plot for diagnostic sensitivity of ovarian cancer by combination detection serum CA125 CA199 and CEA.

3.4 Pooled specificity

With significant statistical heterogeneity, diagnostic specificity was pooled by random effect model. The pooled diagnostic specificity of combination detection serum CA125, CA199 and CEA for epithelial ovarian cancer was 0.83 (95%CI: 0.80 to 0.86), Figure 2.

Figure 2 Forest plot for diagnostic specificity of ovarian cancer by combination detection serum CA125 CA199 and CEA.
Figure 2

Forest plot for diagnostic specificity of ovarian cancer by combination detection serum CA125 CA199 and CEA.

3.5 Pooled positive likely hood ratio

Significant heterogeneity was found in the effect size of positive likely hood ratio. The pooled positive likely hood ratio was 5.35(95%CI:3.90 to 7.33) by random effect model, Figure 3.

Figure 3 Forest plot for positive likely hood ratio by combination detection serum CA125 CA199 and CEA.
Figure 3

Forest plot for positive likely hood ratio by combination detection serum CA125 CA199 and CEA.

3.6 Pooled negative likely hood ratio

The negative likely hood ratio was pooled by fixed effect model without statistical heterogeneity. It was 0.13 with its 95%CI of 0.10 to 0.16, Figure 4.

Figure 4 Forest plot for negative likely hood ratio by combination detection serum CA125 CA199 and CEA.
Figure 4

Forest plot for negative likely hood ratio by combination detection serum CA125 CA199 and CEA.

3.7 Pooleddiagnostic odds ratio

The diagnostic odds ratio was pooled by random effect model for significant statistical heterogeneity. The pooled diagnostic odds ratio was 48.53 (95%CI: 29.91 to 78.72), Figure 5.

Figure 5 Forest plot for diagnostic odds ratio by combination detection serum CA125 CA199 and CEA.
Figure 5

Forest plot for diagnostic odds ratio by combination detection serum CA125 CA199 and CEA.

3.8 Pooled SCOR

The pooled area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) was 0.92 (95%C: 0.89 to 0.94), Figure 6.

Figure 6 The pooled receiver operating characteristic curve of combination detection serum CA125 CA199 and CEA.
Figure 6

The pooled receiver operating characteristic curve of combination detection serum CA125 CA199 and CEA.

3.9 Subgroup analysis

We further performed subgroup analysis for diagnostic sensitivity, specificity, positive likely hood ratio, negative likely hood ratio, diagnostic odds ratio, and AUC according the control type. The subgroup analysis results were showed in Table 3.

Table 3

Subgroup analysis according to control type

Effect sizeBenign ovarian tumorHealthy subjects
Sen0.89 (0.85 to 0.92)0.90 (0.84 to 0.94)
Sep0.81 (0.77 to 0.85)0.89 (0.83 to 0.94)
+LR4.51 (2.94 to 6.90)8.37 (3.73 to 18.77)
-LR0.14 (0.10 to 0.19)0.12 (0.08 to 0.18)
DOR34.37 (17.37 to 67.98)75.45 (32.10 to 177.34)
AUC0.93 (0.89to 0.95)0.91 (0.87 to 0.96)

3.10 Publication bias

No publication bias was found according to the funnel plot (Figure 7) and line regression test (t=-1.34, P=0.21), Figure 7.

Figure 7 Funnel plot for evaluation publication bias.
Figure 7

Funnel plot for evaluation publication bias.

4 Discussion

Epithelial ovarian cancer is one of the most diagnosed malignant carcinoma in females [23]. It has been reported that epithelial ovarian cancer was the 2nd most common malignant gynecological carcinoma with an increasing incidence and prevalence [24,25]. Progress has been made for epithelial ovarian cancer early diagnosis; however, most patients were diagnosed in advanced stage with relative poor prognosis (mean 5-year survival rate of 37.6%) [26,27]. The poor 5-year survival rate for epithelial ovarian cancer patients is the result of aggressive biological behavior and a lack of early detection method. It was reported about 70% of epithelial ovarian cancer patients were diagnosed at advanced stage [25]. So, high sensitivity, specificity and accurate methods are need for detection of epithelial ovarian cancer especially for early stage or high-risk subjects. Serum cancer antigen 125 (CA125) are mostly used tumor serum biomarker for several cancers screening including epithelial ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer, cervical cancer, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer and et al. However, the diagnostic sensitivity were not satisfactory. USPSTF stated that detection serum CA125 had almost no effect on reducing ovarian mortality, while instead increasing the risk of harm including diagnostic procedure and decline in quality of life [26]. CA199 is a glucolipid on the cell membrane and a kind of mucin tumor markers, its molecular weight is more than 1 000 Kd. CA199 was another biomarker used for detection of epithelial ovarian cancer. However, it had limited clinical use for epithelial ovarian cancer screening with not satisfactory diagnostic accuracy. CEA is one of the most used tumor markers in clinical application. It has important diagnostic value for gynecology malignant tumor, breast cancer [28], lung cancer [29] and other digestive system malignant tumors. However, single detection serum CA125, CA199 and CEA had little value for epithelial ovarian cancer detection with low sensitivity or specificity. Several published studies has demonstrated that combination detection serum CA125, CA199 and CEA can provide satisfactory diagnostic value for epithelial ovarian cancer [15,16]. However, because of the small sample size of each individual study, the conclusion was not consistent. So, in our present meta-analysis we included 12 prospective diagnostic trials evaluating the diagnostic value of combination detection CA125, CA199 and CEA for epithelial ovarian cancer diagnosis. The results showed pooled diagnostic sensitivity specificity, positive likely hood ratio, negative likely hood ratio, diagnostic odds ratio, and AUC were 0.90 (95%CI: 0.80 to 0.92), 0.83 (95%CI: 0.80 to 0.86), 5.35(95%CI:3.90 to 7.33), 0.13 (95%CI: 0.10 to 0.16), 48.53 (95%CI: 29.91 to 78.72) and 0.92 (95%C: 0.89 to 0.94) respectively. These results indicated that combination detection serum CA125, CA199 and CEA was promising biomarker for epithelial ovarian cancer with relative high sensitivity and specificity.

However, there were several limitations for this meta-analysis. Firstly, only studies published in Chinese or English were searched in the databases and included in this study. This may result in publication searching bias. Secondly, significant statistical heterogeneity was existed in this meta-analysis, which may decrease the statistical power and weaken the conclusion. Thirdly, the original studies included in this manuscript did not use the same cut-off value to determine the serum protein of CA125,CA199 and CEA negative or positive. This is an important clinical heterogeneity across the original studies. Fourthly, for the included12 references, the patients were of the same source population, which may limited, its clinical use.

  1. Conflict of interest: No authors report any conflict of interest.

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Received: 2017-1-26
Accepted: 2017-2-2
Published Online: 2017-5-7

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