title: [Clinical significances of tissue polypeptide antigen in patients with gynecological malignancies].
abstract: Recently, tissue polypeptide antigen (TPA) has become of general interest as one of the new tumor-related antigens. In this study, TPA was measured mainly in patients with various gynecological malignancies by radioimmunoassay, and serum TPA levels above 110u/l were considered pathological. The serum TPA level in normal women was 66 +/- 21 u/l (mean +/- S.D.) and the positive rate was 0 percent. Serum TPA levels in patients with cervical cancer, endometrial cancer, ovarian cancer and uterine sarcoma (181 +/- 262, 117 +/- 49, 217 +/- 215, 142 +/- 49u/l) and positive rates (55, 40, 53, 75 percent) were significantly higher than those in normal women. Serum TPA levels in patients with advanced or recurrent diseases had a tendency to show highly positive. In all of 13 patients with positive TPA, serum TPA levels were significantly reduced and turned negative after the appropriate treatments. However, among our follow-up patients, serum TPA levels were often positive even when there was no clinical evidence of recurrence. Conclusion; serum TPA measurement could be a useful subordinate tumor marker in many patients with gynecological malignancies, even though careful judgement is necessary to interpret positive TPA.
mesh_terms: D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000276:immunology*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000276:immunology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology*; D010455:Peptides / Q000032:analysis*; D019396:Tissue Polypeptide Antigen; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000097:blood; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; D010455:Peptides; D019396:Tissue Polypeptide Antigen