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Evaluation of biologically active substances promoting the development of or protecting against endometrial cancer

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Evaluation of biologically active substances promoting the development of or protecting against endometrial cancer
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OncoTargets and therapy, March 2018
DOI 10.2147/ott.s155942
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Aneta Cymbaluk-Płoska, Anita Chudecka-Głaz, Anna Jagodzińska, Ewa Pius-Sadowska, Agnieszka Sompolska-Rzechuła, Bogusław Machaliński, Janusz Menkiszak

Abstract

Adipose tissue is considered an endocrine organ and produces a number of biologically active substances. To consider the role that four adipokines - leptin, omentin-1, vaspin, and galectin-3 - play in the diagnosis of endometrium cancer and to investigate the association between serum concentrations of adipose tissue metabolism products and the diagnostics and prognosis in endometrial cancer. The study included 168 patients with body mass index (BMI) >20 kg/m2admitted due to post-menopausal bleeding. A receiver operating characteristic curves test was performed to determine the diagnostic values of the proteins tested. For leptin and galectin-3 the area under the curve (AUC) values were 0.79/0.68, while for vaspin and omentin-1 the AUC values were 0.82/0.86 for all study patients. The final model identified the following independent risk factors: glucose concentration, BMI, waist circumference, leptin, and vaspin concentrations. Diagnostic values of leptin and galectin-3 with regard to differentiation between high (Fédération Internationale de Gynécologie Obstétrique [FIGO] III and IV) and low (FIGO I and II) stages of clinical tumor advancement and prediction of tumor grading (G1 vs G3) based on the AUC curve were 0.82/0.70 and 0.80/0.74. The AUC values for vaspin and omentin-1 with respect to differentiation between histopathological advancement and grading were 0.86/0.81 and 0.83/0.77, respectively. Significantly lower values of mean omentin-1 and vaspin concentrations were also demonstrated in cases of lymphatic vessel invasion, lymph node metastases, or deep endometrial infiltration (p=0.002,p=0.01,p=0.003, respectively). It appears that elevated concentrations of leptin, vaspin, and omentin-1 may indicate the presence of endometrial cancer. Furthermore, leptin serum level and vaspin appear to be useful tools in the assessment of clinical staging of endometrial cancer.

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Researcher 5 21%
Student > Postgraduate 3 13%
Student > Master 2 8%
Student > Bachelor 1 4%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 11 46%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 42%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 4%
Mathematics 1 4%
Unknown 10 42%
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