Pediatric Population Reference Value Distributions for Cancer Biomarkers and Covariate-Stratified Reference Intervals in the CALIPER Cohort
Author(s) -
Victoria Bevilacqua,
Man Khun Chan,
Yunqi Chen,
David Armbruster,
Beth A. Schodin,
Khosrow Adeli
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
clinical chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1530-8561
pISSN - 0009-9147
DOI - 10.1373/clinchem.2014.229799
Subject(s) - calipers , covariate , medicine , cohort , statistics , reference values , population , cohort study , oncology , mathematics , environmental health , geometry
Cancer biomarkers are commonly used in pediatrics to monitor cancer progression, recurrence, and prognosis, but pediatric reference value distributions have not been well established for these markers. The Canadian Laboratory Initiative on Pediatric Reference Intervals (CALIPER) sought to develop a pediatric database of covariate-stratified reference value distributions for 11 key circulating tumor markers, including those used in assessment of patients with childhood or adult cancers.
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