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ArticleMediators of inflammation2016

Diagnostic Power of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor in Breast Cancer Patients Based on ROC Analysis.

Monika Zajkowska, Edyta Katarzyna Głażewska, Grażyna Ewa Będkowska, Przemysław Chorąży, Maciej Szmitkowski, Sławomir Ławicki

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Article in Mediators of inflammation, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Monika ZajkowskaDepartment of Biochemical Diagnostics, Medical University of Bialystok, 15-089 Bialystok, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-5179-0722
Edyta Katarzyna GłażewskaDepartment of Esthetic Medicine, Medical University of Bialystok, 15-089 Bialystok, Poland.
Grażyna Ewa BędkowskaDepartment of Hematological Diagnostics, Medical University of Bialystok, 15-089 Bialystok, Poland.
Przemysław ChorążyDepartment of Surgery, Public Health Hospital, 19-100 Monki, Poland.
Maciej SzmitkowskiDepartment of Biochemical Diagnostics, Medical University of Bialystok, 15-089 Bialystok, Poland.
Sławomir ŁawickiDepartment of Biochemical Diagnostics, Medical University of Bialystok, 15-089 Bialystok, Poland.
Medical University of Białystok · PL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast cancer (BC) is the most common malignancy in women. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) has been described as an important regulator of angiogenesis which plays a vital role in the progression of tumor. Macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) is a cytokine whose functions include regulation of hematopoietic lineages cells growth, proliferation, and differentiation. We investigated the diagnostic significance of these parameters in comparison to CA15-3 in BC patients and in relation to the control group (benign breast tumor and healthy women). Plasma levels of the tested parameters were determined by ELISA and CA15-3 was determined by CMIA. VEGF was shown to be comparable to CA15-3 values of sensitivity in BC group and, what is more important, higher values in early stages of BC. VEGF was also the only parameter which has statistically significant AUC in all stages of cancer. M-CSF has been shown to be comparable to CA15-3 and VEGF, specificity, and AUC values only in stages III and IV of BC. These results indicate the usefulness and high diagnostic power of VEGF in the detection of BC. Also, it occurred to be the best candidate for cancer diagnostics in stages I and II of BC and in the differentiation between BC and benign cases.

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AdultAgedBreast NeoplasmsEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayFemaleHumansMacrophage Colony-Stimulating FactorMiddle AgedROC CurveSensitivity and SpecificityTranscriptional Elongation FactorsVascular Endothelial Growth Factor AMacrophage Colony-Stimulating FactorTCERG1 protein, humanTranscriptional Elongation FactorsVascular Endothelial Growth Factor A

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PMID27445439
PMCPMC4947496
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