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. 2020 Dec 8;12(12):3686. doi: 10.3390/cancers12123686

Table 2.

Variables included in the final tools.

Tool (Study, Year) Demographics Personal/Family History Symptoms Test Results
Age Other PMH FH Abdo. Pain Pelvic Pain Increase Abdo. Size/Distens. Bloat. Appetite Loss Feeling Full Difficulty Eating Weight Loss Postmen. Bleeding Rectal Bleeding Palpable Abdo. Mass/lump Urinary Freq. Other Hb CA125 HE4
Symptom checklists
Goff SI (Goff, 2007)
Modified Goff SI 1 (Kim, 2009) Urinary urgency
Lurie 7-SI (Lurie, 2009 Bowel symptoms, difficulty emptying bladder, dysuria, fatigue, abnormal vaginal bleed.
Lurie 5-SI (Lurie, 2009) Difficulty emptying bladder, dysuria, abnormal vaginal bleed.
Lurie 4-SI (Lurie, 2009) Abnormal vaginal bleed.
Lurie 3-SI (Lurie, 2009) Abnormal vaginal bleed.
Hamilton SI (Hamilton, 2009)
SGO consensus criteria * (Rossing, 2010) Urinary urgency
Lim SI 1 (Lim, 2012)
Lim SI 2 (Lim, 2012) Vaginal discharge
Hippisley-Cox SI (Hippisley-Cox, 2012)
Modified Goff SI 2 (Shetty, 2015) Urinary urgency
Augmented symptom checklists
Goff SI + CA125 (Andersen, 2008)
Goff SI + HE4 (Andersen, 2010)
Goff SI + HE4 + CA125 (Andersen, 2010)
Goff SI + CA125 + menopause (Macuks, 2011) Menopause
Prediction models
QCancer Ovarian (Hippisley-Cox, 2012) OC
QCancer Female (Hippisley-Cox, 2013) Townsend score, smoking, alcohol, BMI T2DM, COPD, endomet. hyperplasia or polyp, chronic pancreatitis OC, GI cancer, breast cancer Difficulty swallowing, heartburn/indigestion, blood in urine, blood in vomit, blood when cough, irregular menstrual bleeding, vaginal bleeding after sex, breast lump, breast skin tethering or nipple discharge, breast pain, lump in neck, night sweats, venous thromboembolism, CIBH, constipation, cough, unexplained bruising
OC Score A (Grewal, 2013)
OC Score B (Grewal, 2013)
OC Score C (Grewal, 2013)

* Consensus statement released by the Society of Gynaecologic Oncologists (SGO), the Gynaecologic Cancer Foundation and the American Cancer Society. The presence of a variable within a model is denoted by “●”. The terms used to describe a given symptom varied subtly between studies—full details of each tool, including symptom terminology and duration and frequency criteria, are included in Supplementary Material Table S3. Abbreviations: PMH = past medical history; FH = family history; Abdo. = abdominal; Distens. = distension; Bloat. = bloating; Postmen. = postmenopausal; bleed. = bleeding; Freq. = frequency; Hb = haemoglobin; CA125 = cancer antigen 125; HE4 = human epididymis protein 4; SI = symptom index; OC = ovarian cancer; BMI = body mass index; endomet. = endometrial; T2DM = type 2 diabetes mellites; COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; GI = gastrointestinal; CIBH = change in bowel habit.