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Brief Title: Autotaxin: a Potential Biomarker for Breast Cancer.
Official Title: Is Autotaxin a Promising Biomarker for Breast Cancer
Study ID: NCT05680311
Brief Summary: The goal of this clinical trial is to test the efficiency of Autotaxin (ATX) as a biomarker for breast cancer patients. The main questions it aims to answer are; * is ATX a reliable tumor marker for breast cancer patients in diagnosis * can ATX differentiate cancer patients from non-cancer ones
Detailed Description: 80 breast cancer patients and 30 normal patients with no known cancer history were enrolled in this study. All patients were female. The mean ages of cancer patients were 58.2 and 52.7 consecutively for cancer and non-cancer patients. The mean serum ATX levels of cancer and non-cancer patients were 1570.72 and 121.86 ng/mL consecutively (p=0.001). The cut-off value of ATX serum level was 178.49ng/mL according to the ROC analysis. The area under the ROC curve was 0.901showing that ATX is very efficient in distinguishing between two diagnostic groups (diseased/normal). ATX also showed good correlations with known tumor markers (CEA, CA15-3, CA125 levels). ATX levels were still higher than the cut-off value even in cancer patients with normal or low classical tumor marker levels.
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers: Yes
Ankara Etlik City Hospital, Ankara, , Turkey
Name: Duray Seker, Professor
Affiliation: Ankara Etlik City Hospital
Role: STUDY_CHAIR