Platelets are reprogrammed by cancer via a process called education, which favors cancer development. The transcriptional profile of tumor-educated platelets (TEPs) is skewed and therefore practicable for cancer detection. This intercontinental, hospital-based, diagnostic study included 761 treatment-naive inpatients with histologically confirmed adnexal masses and 167 healthy controls from nine medical centers (China, n = 3; Netherlands, n = 5; Poland, n = 1) between September 2016 and May 2019. The main outcomes were the performance of TEPs and their combination with CA125 in two Chinese (VC1 and VC2) and the European (VC3) validation cohorts collectively and independently. Exploratory outcome was the value of TEPs in public pan-cancer platelet transcriptome datasets. The AUCs for TEPs in the combined validation cohort, VC1, VC2, and VC3 were 0.918 (95% CI 0.889-0.948), 0.923 (0.855-0.990), 0.918 (0.872-0.963), and 0.887 (0.813-0.960), respectively. Combination of TEPs and CA125 demonstrated an AUC of 0.922 (0.889-0.955) in the combined validation cohort; 0.955 (0.912-0.997) in VC1; 0.939 (0.901-0.977) in VC2; 0.917 (0.824-1.000) in VC3. For subgroup analysis, TEPs exhibited an AUC of 0.858, 0.859, and 0.920 to detect early-stage, borderline, non-epithelial diseases and 0.899 to discriminate ovarian cancer from endometriosis. TEPs had robustness, compatibility, and universality for preoperative diagnosis of ovarian cancer since it withstood validations in populations of different ethnicities, heterogeneous histological subtypes, and early-stage ovarian cancer. However, these observations warrant prospective validations in a larger population before clinical utilities.
基金:
National Science and Technology Major Sub-Project [2018ZX10301402-002]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [81772787, 82072889, 31822030, 31771458]; National Science Center of Poland [2018/02/X/NZ5/01408]; Intramural Research Program [ST-23]; Medical University of Gdansk, Poland [ST-23]; Technical Innovation Special Project of Hubei Province [2018ACA138]; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2019kfyXMBZ024]; Wuhan Municipal Health Commission [WX18Q16]
第一作者单位:[1]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol,Tongji Hosp,Tongji Med Coll,Dept Gynecol Oncol,Wuhan 430030,Peoples R China[2]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol,Tongji Hosp,Tongji Med Coll,Natl Clin Res Ctr Obstet & Gynecol,Canc Biol Res C,Wuhan 430030,Peoples R China
通讯作者:
通讯机构:[1]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol,Tongji Hosp,Tongji Med Coll,Dept Gynecol Oncol,Wuhan 430030,Peoples R China[2]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol,Tongji Hosp,Tongji Med Coll,Natl Clin Res Ctr Obstet & Gynecol,Canc Biol Res C,Wuhan 430030,Peoples R China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Gao Yue,Liu Chun-Jie,Li Hua-Yi,et al.Platelet RNA enables accurate detection of ovarian cancer: an intercontinental, biomarker identification study[J].PROTEIN & CELL.2023,14(6):433-444.doi:10.1093/procel/pwac056.
APA:
Gao, Yue,Liu, Chun-Jie,Li, Hua-Yi,Xiong, Xiao-Ming,Li, Gui-Ling...&Gao, Qing-Lei.(2023).Platelet RNA enables accurate detection of ovarian cancer: an intercontinental, biomarker identification study.PROTEIN & CELL,14,(6)
MLA:
Gao, Yue,et al."Platelet RNA enables accurate detection of ovarian cancer: an intercontinental, biomarker identification study".PROTEIN & CELL 14..6(2023):433-444