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Poster display session: Biomarkers, Gynaecological cancers, Haematological malignancies, Immunotherapy of cancer, New diagnostic tools, NSCLC - early stage, locally advanced & metastatic, SCLC, Thoracic malignancies, Translational research

5149 - Circulating and tumor-associated caspase-4: a novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarker for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer patients?

Date

20 Oct 2018

Session

Poster display session: Biomarkers, Gynaecological cancers, Haematological malignancies, Immunotherapy of cancer, New diagnostic tools, NSCLC - early stage, locally advanced & metastatic, SCLC, Thoracic malignancies, Translational research

Presenters

Rosalinda Sorrentino

Citation

Annals of Oncology (2018) 29 (suppl_8): viii14-viii57. 10.1093/annonc/mdy269

Authors

R. Sorrentino1, M. Terlizzi2, C. Colarusso1, A. Saccomanno1, R. Salvi3, R.P. Aquino1, A. Pinto1

Author affiliations

  • 1 Department Of Pharmacy, University of Salerno, 84084 - Fisciano/IT
  • 2 Dpt Of Pharmacy, University of Salerno, 84084 - Fisciano/IT
  • 3 Thoracic Surgery Unit, AORN, Monaldi, 80131 - Naples/IT
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Abstract 5149

Background

Late diagnosis limits therapeutic options and survival rate of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. Therefore, the identification of biomarkers represents an emerging medical need.

Methods

A highly sensitive and specific ELISA test was developed to identify/quantify a novel/selective diagnostic biomarker for NSCLC patients, caspase-4, which was detected into the plasma and tissues of NSCLC patients. This test was validated by using plasma from 125 NSCLC patients and 79 healthy (non-pathological) subjects. Caspase-4 quantification was also assessed in the lung tumor mass of 98 paired-matched NSCLC patients compared to 10 non-tumor lung tissues (i.e. tuberculosis).

Results

Circulating caspase-4 was detected in both healthy and NSCLC patients; however, at different range values: 2.603-3.372 ng/ml for NSCLC patients (95% CI) compared to 0.3994-0.6219 ng/ml for healthy subjects (95% CI). The sensitivity of the test ranged from 97.07% to 100%; the specificity was 88.1% with a positive predictive value of 92.54%, accuracy of 95.19% and AUC of 0.971. Tissue levels of caspase-4 in the tumor mass showed that 72 (72.7%) out of 99 patients were positive. More importantly, higher levels (cut-off value= 0.307 ng/ml) of caspase-4 in the tumor mass were associated to reduced overall survival (median 0.92 years) compared to NSCLC patients with lower levels (median 3.02 years).

Conclusions

We report for the first time caspase-4 as a novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarker, opening new therapeutic perspectives for NSCLC patients.

Clinical trial identification

Legal entity responsible for the study

ImmunePharma srl.

Funding

Invitalia-Italian Ministry of Economy (MISE).

Editorial Acknowledgement

Disclosure

All authors have declared no conflicts of interest.

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