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. 1997;76(6):760–764. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1997.458

Usefulness of bone metabolic markers in the diagnosis and follow-up of bone metastasis from lung cancer.

A Aruga 1, M Koizumi 1, R Hotta 1, S Takahashi 1, E Ogata 1
PMCID: PMC2228042  PMID: 9310242

Abstract

Ninety-one lung cancer patients were evaluated to determine the usefulness of bone metabolic markers in the diagnosis and follow-up of bone metastases and also to investigate their clinical usefulness as an adjunct to bone scintigraphy. Both bone resorption markers, ICTP and fDPD, and bone formation markers, Al-p, BAL, PICP and BGP, were evaluated in 47 patients with and 44 without bone metastasis. The patients with bone metastasis were classified according to the bone metastatic burden, and they were also separately classified into groups according to the course of the bone metastasis. ICTP, fDPD, Al-p and BAL were significantly elevated (P < 0.001) in patients with bone metastasis, but PICP and BGP were not. Receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curves of these markers revealed that ICTP was most highly correlated with the diagnosis of bone metastasis. The sensitivity of ICTP (71.4%) and fDPD (61.0%) were good with high specificity. T scores of ICTP, fDPD and BAL tended to be higher at higher grades of bone metastasis. T-scores of ICTP, fDPD and BAL were elevated in the newly diagnosed cases and progressed cases, but the T-scores of ICTP and fDPD in those cases were higher than that of BAL. In the follow-up study, ICTP was well correlated with uncontrolled or controlled bone metastasis. Thus, bone resorption markers, especially ICTP, could be a good indicator of the progression and multiplicity of disease, and it could help in the follow-up and in the monitoring of therapy for bone metastasis from lung cancer.

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