title: CYFRA 21-1 is not superior to SCC antigen and CEA in head and neck squamous cell cancer.
abstract: CYFRA 21-1 was compared to the most reliable tumor markers for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (HNSCC), SCC antigen and CEA. Sera of 163 patients with primary and 40 patients with recurrent HNSCC were examined. 94 patients with non-malignant ENT-diseases served as the control group. To give a specificity of 95% the cut-off-values were as follows: SCC: 1.9 ng/ml, CEA: 3.8 ng/ml, CYFRA 21-1: 2.9 ng/ml. SCC had the highest sensitivity at the time of primary diagnosis (P) at 43% and 61% at relapse (R), compared to CEA with P: 35%, R: 40% and CYFRA 21-1 with P: 17%, R: 18%. We show that CYFRA 21-1 cannot offer additional information to the clinical outcome of patients with HNSCC, whereas combined analysis of SCC and CEA leads to a markedly increased sensitivity of 60% at primary diagnosis and of 79% in cases of tumor relapse.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wollenberg
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Jan
authors.forename: U M
authors.initials: UM
authors.lastname: Schmit
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hofmann
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stieber
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fateh-Moghadam
mesh_terms: D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm / Q000097:blood*; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000097:blood*; D002272:Carcinoembryonic Antigen / Q000097:blood*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000097:blood* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000097:blood* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D053539:Keratin-19; D007633:Keratins; D008297:Male; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000097:blood; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012372:ROC Curve; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D015843:Serpins
chemical_list: D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D002272:Carcinoembryonic Antigen; D053539:Keratin-19; D015843:Serpins; C102012:antigen CYFRA21.1; C051072:squamous cell carcinoma-related antigen; D007633:Keratins