Correlation of Blood Tumor Marker Levels with Clinical Efficacy of TACE Interventional Therapy for Primary Liver Cancer and Its Postoperative Residual Cancer Prediction Value
CHEN Tian, ZHANG Yu, LI Tingting, et al
Beijing Millennium Temple Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100038, China
Abstract:Objective: To investigate the correlation between the levels of blood tumor markers and the effect of TACE intervention for primary liver cancer (PLC) and the predictive value of the presence of residual cancer after surgery. Methods: Totally 132 primary liver cancer patients were selected as the study subjects, and they were divided into the valid group (n=40) and the ineffective group (n=92) according to the presence or absence of residual cancer after the operation, and the clinical data of the patients were collected, and the levels of serum tumor markers were detected before and after the treatment. Before and after therapy, the two groups' clinical features and blood tumor marker levels were compared; the influencing factors of the efficacy of PLC after surgery were analyzed by multifactorial logistic regression; and the predictive value of blood tumor markers for residual cancers after surgery was assessed by using the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves. Results: The patients in the two groups had BMI, gender and the presence of cirrhotic nodules were not significant (P>0.05); the ratio of patients with differentiation degree Ⅲ~Ⅳ, as well as the levels of blood tumor markers AFP, CEA, CA125 and CA50 in the valid group were significantly higher than those in the valid group, and the tumor envelope proportion (P<0.05) was much lower than that in the successful group. Following TACE administration, there was a statistically significant difference (P<0.05) between the ineffective group's and the valid group's levels of the blood tumor markers AFP, CEA, CA125, and CA50; the results of multifactorial logistic regression analysis showed that the high levels of AFP, CA50 and CEA as well as the high degree of differentiation of the tumors were the risk factors affecting the efficacy of the treatment (P<0.05), and the tumor envelope was the protective factor for the efficacy of the treatment (P<0.05). The ROC curve showed that the area under the curve (AUC) of AFP, CEA, CA125 and CA50 for the diagnosis of residual cancer after PLC intervention were 0.917, 0.925, 0.711, and 0.617, respectively. Conclusion: The level of blood tumor markers is related to the curative effect of TACE and postoperative residual cancer, and the AUC of AFP and CEA is closer to 1, which shows that AFP and CEA have high diagnostic value for the occurrence of residual cancer after PLC intervention, and provide an important basis for the curative effect evaluation and postoperative residual cancer prediction of primary liver cancer treated by TACE
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CHEN Tian, ZHANG Yu, LI Tingting, et al. Correlation of Blood Tumor Marker Levels with Clinical Efficacy of TACE Interventional Therapy for Primary Liver Cancer and Its Postoperative Residual Cancer Prediction Value. HeBei Med, 2025, 31(12): 2037-2043.
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