Performance of preoperative plasma tumor markers HE4 and CA125 in predicting ovarian cancer mortality in women with epithelial ovarian cancer.

Clinical utility of new biomarkers often requires the identification of their optimal threshold. This external validation study was conducted to assess the performance of the preoperative plasma tumor markers HE4 and CA125 optimal cut-offs to predict cancer mortality in women with epithelial ovarian...

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Main Authors: Daniela Furrer, Jean Grégoire, Stéphane Turcotte, Marie Plante, Dimcho Bachvarov, Dominique Trudel, Bernard Têtu, Pierre Douville, Isabelle Bairati
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218621