Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Sam S. Chang , Jennifer Linehan , Kristen R. Scarpato , Jeffrey C. Bassett , Rodney Brenneman
Background: Bladder cancer afflicts over 700,000 patients in the US and is one of the most expensive cancers to treat. Given a recurrence rate of up to 70%, regular often prolonged surveillance is required. In addition to urine based tests, current standard evaluation includes cystoscopy which is burdensome for patients and physicians; there has long been a need for a reliable non-invasive alternative diagnostic tool. While there is a wealth of literature on urinary biomarkers, no single biomarker has demonstrated consistent high sensitivity and specificity. Methods: The CarePoint Assay, a point-of-care (POC) tool, can perform multiple biomarker tests simultaneously. In this study, urine was collected from patients undergoing urologic evaluation for hematuria from three separate institutions. The urine was sent for central evaluation and the CarePoint Assay was used to detect the bladder cancer biomarker BTA. POC results were then compared to results from a highly sensitive 6-hour ELISA. The accuracy of distinguishing high-grade tumors, low-grade tumors and no tumor present were compared between the two methods. Results: The CarePoint Assay demonstrated excellent correlation with the ELISA in detecting biomarker levels and distinguishing high-grade tumors as well as a superior specificity (88% versus 77%) for ELISA, sensitivity (52% vs. 72%) for ELISA and a limit of detection of 2.55 ng/mL (16 picomolar). Conclusions: With this high performance, the CarePoint Assay has the ability to detect and multiplex multiple other bladder cancer biomarkers with higher sensitivity and specificity. Additional biomarker analysis using the CarePoint Assay may yield the medically desired higher levels of sensitivity and specificity for a non-invasive point-of-care bladder cancer test, ultimately limiting the patient burden of bladder cancer surveillance.
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