Serum biomarkers associated with clinical outcomes fail to predict brain metastases in patients with stage IV non-small cell lung cancers
Academic Article
Overview
MeSH Major
Biomarkers, Tumor
Brain Neoplasms
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
Lung Neoplasms
abstract
Serum NSE, CYFRA 21-1, Pro-GRP, SCC-Ag, TIMP1, and HE4 are not significantly associated with brain metastases. Our methods taking into account follow-up time may be applied to independent datasets to identify a patient cohort with a higher biologic propensity for developing brain metastases. Such information may be useful for the study of agents targeting the development of brain metastases.
