Serum tumor markers to predict cancer-related venous thromboembolism in gastric cancer.
e15526 Background: To investigate the relationship between the preoperative level of serum tumor markers and cancer-related venous thromboembolism in patients with gastric cancer. Methods: 1005 patients with gastric cancer who underwent curative resection were finally enrolled in this study. Serum tumor markers including CEA, CA19-9, CA242, CA72-4, CA125 were tested within one week before curative surgery. Measurement data between groups were compared with t test. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive values, and negative predictive values of five biomarkers and the combination group were calculated, respectively. The odds ratios were calculated via both univariate and multivariate logistic regression models. Results: Cancer-related venous thromboembolism was found in 540 (53.73%) patients. The increase of each cancer marker is remarkably related with cancer-related venous thromboembolism. The more abnormal serum tumor markers come out, the high the risk of positive cancer-related venous thromboembolism can be. The possibility of positive cancer-related venous thromboembolism would be 2.9 times as much as a normal patient as any of the tumor markers increases. With the increase of any 4 of the tumor markers can make the risk 16.4 times Conclusions: The status of postoperative cancer-related venous thromboembolism can be predicted from preoperative serum tumor markers. For those patients with a high risk of positive cancer-related venous thromboembolism, more aggressive treatment should be arranged.