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Abstract AP01: HE4 IS A BIOMARKER FOR NEWLY DIAGNOSED AND RECURRENT HIGH–GRADE SEROUS OVARIAN CANCERS WITH NORMAL CA–125 VALUES
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PURPOSE: CA125 is widely used for the diagnosis and monitoring of women with epithelial ovarian cancer. However, CA125 will not be elevated in ~20% of patients. Human epididymis protein 4 (HE4) was approved by the FDA in 2008 to monitor ovarian cancer. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether HE4 would serve as a useful biomarker in patients with a normal CA125 at either the time of diagnosis or at the time of recurrence.
METHODS: Twenty–one patients with high–grade serous ovarian cancer and CA125 values <50U/ml at the time of diagnosis were identified from a bank of serum specimens collected between 2006–2012. Twenty patients with high–grade serous ovarian cancer and CA125 values >1000U/ml served as positive controls and 11 patients without disease served as negative controls. Fourteen patients with an elevated CA125 at diagnosis (>50 U/ml) and a normal CA125 at the time of recurrence were also identified. HE4 was measured using the Abbott Architect i2000 assay and validation was performed using the Fujirebio HE4 ELISA assay. Normal age–based HE4 values were obtained from the published literature (Urban N, et al.; PMID: 22962406). Data was compared between groups using standard two–sided statistical tests.
RESULTS: At the time of diagnosis, the mean HE4 was 1082±437.9 in the positive control patients with elevated CA125, the mean HE4 was 50.96±11.43 in the patients without disease, and 214.4±236.9 in patients with a normal CA–125 (P = <.0001 compared to normal controls; Student's t–test). At the time of recurrence, the mean HE4 was 102.7±83.29 in patients with normal CA125 levels. For 12 of 14 (86%) patients, the HE4 value was greater than the expected normal age–based reference.
CONCLUSIONS: These preliminary data suggest that HE4 values are elevated in newly diagnosed ovarian cancer patients with a normal CA125 value. HE4 also appears to be a potentially useful biomarker for detecting recurrent disease in patients with an elevated CA125 at the time of diagnosis who have a normal CA125 level at the time of recurrence.
Citation Format: Katherine LaVigne, MD, Fanny Dao, MS, Nadeem Abu–Rustum, MD, Petar Jelinic, PhD, Lakshmi V. Ramanathan, PhD, Martin Fleisher, PhD, Douglas A. Levine, MD. HE4 IS A BIOMARKER FOR NEWLY DIAGNOSED AND RECURRENT HIGH–GRADE SEROUS OVARIAN CANCERS WITH NORMAL CA–125 VALUES [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Ovarian Cancer Research Symposium; Sep 12-13, 2016; Seattle, WA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Clin Cancer Res 2017;23(11 Suppl):Abstract nr AP01.</jats:p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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