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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 34, 2513-2516, Copyright © 1988 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

An enzyme immunoassay procedure for cancer antigen 125 evaluated

KW Ryder, TO Oei, MT Hull and MM Sample
Department of Pathology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Wishard Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis 46202.

The performance of a new enzyme immunoassay (EIA) procedure (Abbott Labs.) for cancer antigen 125 (CA 125) met or exceeded the manufacturer's claims for all analytical variables examined. Overall correlation with results obtained with a radioimmunoassay (RIA) were good. However, near the decision thresholds typically chosen to define a positive result for ovarian carcinoma, EIA results were 10 to 20 arbitrary units/mL less than the RIA results. At specific decision thresholds, therefore, the sensitivities and specificities of the EIA and RIA procedure differed. Adjusting the decision thresholds gave a similar optimum efficiency for each procedure: EIA, 82.9% (decision threshold, 35 units/mL); RIA, 83.4% (decision threshold, 54 units/mL). Receiver-operating characteristic curves showed that the two procedures' ability to distinguish patients with active ovarian carcinoma from those with disease in remission was the same.


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