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PubMed: 38315228 DOI: 10.1007/s00432-023-05588-z
Detection of the DNA methylation of seven genes contribute to the early diagnosis of lung cancer.
J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 150(2):77
Authors: Chaoxiang Du, Lijie Tan, Xiao Xiao, Beibei Xin, Hui Xiong, Yuying Zhang, Zhonghe Ke, Jun Yin
Affiliations
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Cancer Center, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Zhongshan Hospital (Xiamen), Fudan University, Xiamen, China.
- School of Physics, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, 130022, China. Shanghai Rightongene Biotechnology Co. Ltd. Shanghai, 201403, China.
- Shanghai Rightongene Biotechnology Co. Ltd. Shanghai, 201403, China.
- Shanghai Rightongene Biotechnology Co. Ltd. Shanghai, 201403, China.
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Cancer Center, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Abstract
BACKGROUND
Low-dose Computed Tomography (CT) is used for the detection of pulmonary nodules, but the ambiguous risk evaluation causes overdiagnosis. Here, we explored the significance of the DNA methylation of 7 genes including TAC1, CDO1, HOXA9, ZFP42, SOX17, RASSF1A and SHOX2 in the blood cfDNA samples in distinguishing lung cancer from benign nodules and healthy individuals.
METHOD
A total of 149 lung cancer patients [72 mass and 77 ground-glass nodules (GGNs)], 5 benign and 48 healthy individuals were tested and analyzed in this study. The lasso-logistic regression model was built for distinguishing cancer and control/healthy individuals or IA lung cancer and non-IA lung cancer cases.
RESULTS
The positive rates of methylation of 7 genes were higher in the cancer group as compared with the healthy group. We constructed a model using age, sex and the ΔCt value of 7 gene methylation to distinguish lung cancer from benign and healthy individuals. The sensitivity, specificity and AUC (area under the curve) were 86.7%, 81.4% and 0.891, respectively. Also, we assessed the significance of 7 gene methylation together with patients' age and sex in distinguishing of GGNs type from the mass type. The sensitivity, specificity and AUC were 77.1%, 65.8% and 0.753, respectively. Furthermore, the methylation positive rates of CDO1 and SHOX2 were different between I-IV stages of lung cancer. Specifically, the positive rate of CDO1 methylation was higher in the non-IA group as compared with the IA group.
CONCLUSION
Collectively, this study reveals that the methylation of 7 genes has a big significance in the diagnosis of lung cancer with high sensitivity and specificity. Also, the 7 genes present with certain significance in distinguishing the GGN type lung cancer, as well as different stages.
MeSH
Genes, Early Diagnosis, Lung, Neoplasms, Dna Methylation, Lung Neoplasms, Sex, Diagnosis, Medical Oncology
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