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Diagnostic role of tumor markers
Papel diagnóstico de los marcadores tumorales
Francisco Javier Mérida de la Torrea,c,d,
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, Elvira Eva Moreno Campoyb,c
a Unidad de Gestión Clínica de Laboratorio, Área de Gestión Sanitaria de la Serranía de Málaga, Servicio Andaluz de Salud, Ronda, Málaga, Spain
b Dirección Regional para la Seguridad del Paciente, Consejería de Salud, Junta de Andalucía, Sevilla, Spain
c Comisión de Seguridad del Paciente, Sociedad Española de Bioquímica Clínica y Medicina del Laboratorio, Barcelona, Spain
d Asociación Española de Biopatología Médica y Medicina de Laboratorio, Madrid, Spain
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the medical community saw a magnificent opportunity to face one of the diseases with the greatest impact on society&#46; Not only because of the number of deaths it causes&#44; but also because of the burden of this disease on patients&#44; their families&#44; society and the healthcare system&#46;</p><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Basically it was about measuring&#44; through a blood test&#44; certain substances &#40;hormones&#44; proteins&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">etc&#46;</span>&#41; that would allow &#8220;to diagnose&#8221; the neoplastic disease&#46; The first advantage was how easy it was to obtain the sample with a simple venipuncture&#46; Moreover&#44; any blood drawing could be used to perform any other laboratory tests&#46; This opportunity could not be missed&#44; becoming a routine test&#44; particularly because over time more and more molecules were appearing with specific profiles related to a particular type of tumor or a specific anatomical region&#46; Thus&#44; alpha-fetoprotein &#40;AFP&#41; was available for germ-cell and hepatic tumors&#44; human chorionic gonadotropin &#40;HCG&#41; for germ-cell tumors and choriocarcinoma&#44; carcinoembryonic antigen &#40;CEA&#41; that guided on gastrointestinal tumors&#44; the various carbohydrate antigens &#40;CA&#41;&#44; CA 125 for ovarian cancer&#44; CA 15-3 &#8220;suggestive&#8221; of breast cancer&#44; CA 19-9 focused on pancreatic cancer and prostate-specific antigen &#40;PSA&#41; related to cancer of prostate&#44; among many others&#46;</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The impact of these assays was so important that they were quickly included into the service portfolios of the laboratories&#44; which competed with one another to offer the broadest panel of tumor markers that would allow&#44; in a single act&#44; to alert the clinician on the existence of a neoplastic disease&#46; These tests were even used as &#8220;screening&#8221; tests&#44; sometimes being requested without clear criteria and&#44; 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Moreover&#44; even in the presence of tumors at an early stage&#44; tumor markers can be negative&#46;</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">This performance&#44; including markers as a routine test&#44; has led to a significant number of unnecessary laboratory tests&#44; prescription of additional studies&#44; mostly bloody&#44; aimed at corroborating or refuting this finding&#44; exposing patients to numerous risks that occasionally have resulted in harming the patient&#46; In radiology&#44; the VOMIT &#40;Victim of Modern Imaging Technology&#41; syndrome has been reported&#44; which means that the prognosis&#44; diagnosis or treatment provided have been wrong due to a wrong indication or a failed interpretation of the radiological tests&#46; Unfortunately&#44; in the world of <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">in vitro</span> diagnostics&#44; despite the consequences that sometimes have led to an inappropriate indication or a failed interpretation of blood tests&#44; a similar syndrome has not been described yet&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a></p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It was in the year 2000&#44; with the publication of the report &#8220;To err is human&#8221;&#44; of the Institute of Medicine of USA when the focus was placed on medical performance as a cause of death and adverse events in medical practice&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0100"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> Five years later&#44; in our country&#44; the national study on adverse effects linked to hospitalization &#40;ENEA&#41; was launched&#44; trying to reproduce the findings of the American study&#46; Although initially the <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">in vitro</span> and <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">in vivo</span> diagnostic tests did not account for an important percentage&#44; only 2&#46;7&#37; of the total causes were compared against the errors related to medication or surgery&#44; it did draw attention that in almost 90&#37; cases all those errors could be prevented&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a></p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">All this information led healthcare systems to place patient safety as a priority in their political agenda&#44; beginning with a critical reading of the health actions performed in every field&#44; describing human errors and system failures as the cause of these adverse events&#46; This has been complemented by the publication of studies on the inadequate use of these tests and the need for the appropriate indication to ensure a proper and safe practice&#46;</p><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Tumor markers do not escape this need and studies are being conducted in this line&#44; not only analyzing the appropriate indication of said markers&#44; but the implications that their prescription may have in other types of studies&#46;</p><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">International&#44; European and national scientific societies have also echoed this trend and have deepened in these indications&#44; laying the foundations for an appropriate and safer use&#46; The European Group on Tumor Markers &#40;EGTM&#41;&#44; states in its general guidelines that the usefulness of tumor markers lies in the follow-up of the disease and treatment monitoring&#44; and this is worth mentioning&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0110"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> In the same way&#44; the National Cancer Institute &#40;NCI&#41; does not recommend its use as screening tests and reiterates the EGTM recommendations&#44; including some biomarkers in these terms&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a></p><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">At a national level and within the scope of <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">in vitro</span> diagnostics&#44; we would like to mention the benchmarking project of the Spanish Association of Medical Biopathology &#8220;Intelligent decisions from the Laboratory&#58; 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also being reviewed&#46; In recent studies it has been concluded that&#44; although this marker can reduce mortality&#44; it is associated with up to a false positive rate of 50&#37;&#44; complications with subsequent biopsy and overdiagnosis&#46; Even though early treatment after a positive screening reduces the risk of metastatic recurrence&#44; its impact on long-term mortality rates has not been conclusive yet&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0145"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14&#44;15</span></a></p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It is evident that the role of tumor markers has undergone an evolution over time&#44; in the same way as scientific findings have&#46; Far from the initial hopes placed on these tests&#44; we should make a more thorough reading of their indications and find the real usefulness of these indications to minimize the risks and occurrence of any adverse events&#46; Whether from the perspective of patient safety or the quality of prescription or efficiency&#44; we should be aware of the impact that the prescription of this type of tests can have on a patient&#46; In a highly connected and well-informed society&#44; the meaning of tumor markers is within everyone&#39;s reach&#46; A positive result does not mean the existence of a tumor&#44; and a negative result does not exclude it&#46; In the first case&#44; the number of tests required to conclude whether there is or not a neoplastic disease is very important and they involve numerous risks for the patient&#46; However&#44; in the second case&#44; a wrong indication or interpretation of the negative result can lead to a false sense of security and relax the level of alert when monitoring a particular patient&#44; which may lead to a diagnosis omission&#46;</p><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Strategies adopted by some centers to change the name of &#8220;tumor markers&#8221; to &#8220;specific markers&#8221; as it has been attempted in some laboratories to reduce the burden of anxiety in the patient does not solve the problem&#46;</p><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">An adequate knowledge of the test limitations&#44; 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