Open AccessRaised carbohydrate antigen 19-9 levels detect recurrences and impacts overall and disease-free survival in radically resected gallbladder cancer: A simple surveillance marker?
Author(s) -
Sushma Agrawal,
Rajan Saxena
Publication year - 2023
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_702_20
Subject(s) - medicine , tumor marker , hazard ratio , gastroenterology , abdomen , radiology , gallbladder , adjuvant therapy , gallbladder cancer , carcinoma , cancer , confidence interval
There are no established markers which can be used for surveillance after curative resection in gallbladder carcinoma (GBC). Though carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9) has low specificity as a diagnostic marker, its role as a surveillance marker has not been explored. The aim of this study is to evaluate the predictive ability of CA 19-9 as a surveillance marker to detect recurrences on follow-up.