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. 2025 Aug 22;151(8):233. doi: 10.1007/s00432-025-06271-1

Table 5.

Comparison of the diagnostic utility of single CA15-3 and CEA assays and selected combinations of these markers with other parameters in the diagnosis of BC patients

Parameter SN [%] SP [%] AUC References
CEA 7.18 98.85 Chen et al. (2020b)
CA15-3 7.47 99.23
CA125 4.89 95.02
CEA+CA15-3 12.93 98.08
CEA+CA125+CA15-3 16.95 93.10
TAP+CEA+CA15-3 17.82 97.70
TAP+CEA+CA125+CA15-3 21.84 92.72
CEA 23.94 67.44 0.679 Luo et al. (2022)
CA15-3 15.00 96.43 0.727
CA125 16.54 93.57 0.695
AFP+CEA+CA15-3 83.46 74.29 0.913
CEA+CA125+CA19-9 83.08 73.57 0.922
AFP+CA15-3+CA125 (accuracy 80.25%) 82.31 77.14 0.905
Nipple discharge (ND) Wang et al. (2014)
CEA 69.8 86.0 0.779
CA15-3 74.4 82.4 0.784
CA125 72.1 83.8 0.780
Serum
CEA 53.5 89.0 0.712
CA15-3 60.5 91.9 0.762
CA125 55.8 90.4 0.732
(ND+serum) CEA+CA15-3+CA125+TSGF 97.7 75.0 0.863
CEA 81.8 69.4 0.799 Zou et al. (2022)
NLR+CEA+CA19-9 76.5 88.9 0.886
CA15-3 58 - 0.634 Zuo et al. (2016)
CA15-3+LGALS3+PHB2+MUC1+GK2 87 76 0.872
CA15-3 69.1 89.4 0.792 Dong et al. (2013)
FTH1+CA15-3 85.1 92.7 0.834
hnRNPF+CA15-3 87.4 91.0 0.862
FTH1+hnRNPF+CA15-3 89.3 93.8 0.931
early-stage BC Liu et al. (2018)
CA15-3 52.3 73.3 0.607
PD-1+IL-10+IL-2Rα+CA15-3 93.3 61.4 0.811
advanced BC
CA15-3 65.2 100 0.791
PD-1+IL-10+CA15-3 93.3 78.3 0.896
BC (total)
CA15-3 64.4 73.3 0.707
PD-1+IL-10+IL-2Rα+CA15-3 93.3 72.4 0.862
CA15-3 58.33 95.00 0.7573 Zajkowska et al. (2019)
VEGF-C+CA15-3 86.67 70.00 0.8476