Proteiomic patterns for endometrial cancer using SELDI-TOF-MS

J Zhejiang Univ Sci B. 2008 Apr;9(4):286-90. doi: 10.1631/jzus.B0710589.

Abstract

Serum samples from endometrial cancer (EC) patients and healthy females were analyzed using surface-enhanced laser desorption-ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF-MS) to discover the potential diagnostic biomarker for detection of EC. A preliminary training set of spectra derived from 40 EC patients and 30 healthy women were used to develop a proteomic model that effectively discriminated cancer patients from healthy women. The training set had a specificity of 100% and sensitivity of 92.5% in the EC detection. A blind test set, including 20 new cancer cases and 10 healthy women, was used to validate the sensitivity and specificity of this multivariate model, which had a corresponding results of 60% in specificity and 75% in sensitivity, respectively. The combination of SELDI-TOF-MS with bioinformatics tools could help find new biomarkers and establish the detection of EC with high sensitivity and specificity.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Biomarkers, Tumor / metabolism
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Endometrial Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Endometrial Neoplasms / metabolism
  • Female
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
  • Humans
  • Medical Oncology / methods
  • Models, Biological
  • Neoplasm Proteins
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Protein Array Analysis
  • Proteomics / methods*
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization / methods*

Substances

  • Biomarkers, Tumor
  • Neoplasm Proteins