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Liu H, Gao D, Huang Y, Li J, Zhao M, Lu Z, Hu Y, Wang T, Zhang Y, Wang W, Cao D. Case Report: Life-threatening hypercalcemia associated with MMR-deficient endometrial carcinoma secreting parathyroid hormone. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2023; 14:1125822. [PMID: 36798668 PMCID: PMC9927209 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1125822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2022] [Accepted: 01/18/2023] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Ectopic secretion of parathyroid hormone (PTH) is a rare cause of hypercalcemia in malignancy patients. A 56-year-old woman with life-threatening hypercalcemia was caused by poorly-differentiated endometrial carcinoma secreting PTH with concomitant nodular goiter mimic parathyroid tumors. The elevated level of PTH and calcium decreased immediately after cytoreductive surgery (CRS). The pathology confirmed mismatch repair (MMR)-deficient endometrial carcinoma with PTH expression. The patient received four-course chemotherapy and one-course immunotherapy after CRS. The disease progression led to multiple organ failure and death about five months after CRS. To our knowledge, this is the first case of hypercalcemia caused by MMR-deficient endometrial carcinoma with ectopic PTH secreting and the first report of malignancy associated hypercalcemia complicated with nodular goiter.
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- Huazhen Liu
- Department of Ultrasound, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- Department of Pathology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pathology, Hongqi Hospital Affiliated to Mudanjiang Medical University, Mudanjiang, China
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- Liver Transplantation Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing, China
- Clinical Center for Pediatric Liver Transplantation, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pathology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- Department of Pathology, Molecular Pathology Research Center, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pathology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- Department of Pathology, Molecular Pathology Research Center, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Diagnosis and Therapy in Nuclear Medicine, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Yingqiang Zhang, ; Wenze Wang, ; Dongyan Cao,
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- Department of Pathology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- Department of Pathology, Molecular Pathology Research Center, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Yingqiang Zhang, ; Wenze Wang, ; Dongyan Cao,
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Yingqiang Zhang, ; Wenze Wang, ; Dongyan Cao,
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Zaitsev VG, Zheltova AA, Martynova SA, Tibirkova EV. Can conventional clinical chemistry tests help doctors in the monitoring of oncology patients? RUSSIAN OPEN MEDICAL JOURNAL 2021. [DOI: 10.15275/rusomj.2021.0103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The use of laboratory assays in the diagnostic care of oncology patients can markedly increase the efficacy of cancer treatments. Many cancer-specific biomarker assays have been developed. However, the use of these has some limitations due to their cost. Moreover, not every diagnostic laboratory can perform a complete set of these assays. On the other hand, the smart use of conventional clinical chemistry tests could improve the management of cancer. They could be especially valuable tools in the long-term care of patients with a verified diagnosis. In this review, we discuss the utilization of the conventional clinical chemistry assays for the diagnosis, monitoring and prognosis of various oncological diseases. The use of conventional blood tests to assess the levels of chemical elements, metabolites and proteins (including enzymatic activity measurements) in the care of oncology patients is discussed. We have shown that some clinical chemistry assays could be used in the management of distinct kinds of cancer.
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Schwartz GG, Tretli S, Klug MG, Robsahm TE. Women who develop ovarian cancer show an increase in serum calcium and a decrease in serum albumin. A longitudinal study in the Janus Serum Bank Cohort. Gynecol Oncol 2020; 159:264-269. [PMID: 32723677 PMCID: PMC8296848 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2020.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 07/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Background. Ovarian cancer is associated with high serum calcium and low serum albumin in clinical and epidemiologic studies. Whether high calcium and low albumin predispose to ovarian cancer or reflect existing cancer is unclear. Objective. Test the hypothesis that serum calcium increases and serum albumin decreases in women who develop ovarian cancer. Methods. Two hundred and four women donated sera to the Janus Serum Bank in Norway pre- and post-diagnosis of ovarian cancer, donations separated by approximately 14 years. We measured calcium and albumin in these sera and calculated the albumin-corrected calcium. Sera were adjusted for patient age and storage time. Results. Post-diagnosis, mean age- and storage-adjusted calcium increased, from 2.53 to 2.68 mmol/L (p < .001). Mean age- and storage-adjusted, albumin-corrected calcium increased from 2.3 to 2.7 mmol/L (p < .001). Conversely, mean age- and storage-adjusted albumin decreased, from a mean of 51.3 to 40.9 g/L (p < .001). Significant changes were observed in women with early stage and metastatic cancer. Conclusions. These data support the hypothesis that calcium and albumin are serum biomarkers of extant ovarian cancer. Longitudinal changes in calcium and albumin may be useful in ovarian cancer early detection.
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- Gary G Schwartz
- Department of Population Health, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND, USA
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- Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Population Health, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND, USA
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- Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway.
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Kelly MG, Winkler SS, Lentz SS, Berliner SH, Swain MF, Skinner HG, Schwartz GG. Serum Calcium and Serum Albumin Are Biomarkers That Can Discriminate Malignant from Benign Pelvic Masses. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2015; 24:1593-8. [PMID: 26184501 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-15-0443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2015] [Accepted: 06/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Biomarkers that aid in the differential diagnosis of malignant pelvic masses from benign ones prior to surgery are needed in order to triage women with malignant masses to appropriate specialist care. Because high albumin-adjusted serum calcium predicted ovarian cancer among women without evidence of disease, we hypothesized that it might predict cancer among women with pelvic masses that were evident radiographically. METHODS We studied a cohort of 514 women with pelvic masses who underwent resection at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center from July 2009 through June 2013. We divided patients into a "training" set, to identify associations in the data, and a "testing" set, to confirm them. Data were obtained from medical records. A best fit model was selected using the Akaike Information Criterion. RESULTS Albumin-adjusted serum calcium was significantly higher in women with malignant versus benign masses (P = 0.0004). High normocalcemia, i.e., an albumin-adjusted serum calcium ≥ 10 mg/dL, occurred in 53% of women with malignant tumors versus 12% of benign tumors. High normocalcemia was associated with an approximately 14-fold increased risk of malignancy. The best fit model (Overa) included albumin, calcium, and nonlinear terms. Overa achieved an area under the curve of 0.83 with a sensitivity of 72% and specificity of 83%, a positive predictive value of 71% and a negative predictive value of 85%. CONCLUSIONS A model using serum calcium and serum albumin to predict malignancy in women with pelvic masses has high sensitivity and is economical. IMPACT Our model can help triage women with ovarian cancer to appropriate surgical care.
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- Michael G Kelly
- Section on Gynecologic Oncology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- Section on Gynecologic Oncology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- Section on Gynecologic Oncology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- Section on Gynecologic Oncology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- Section on Gynecologic Oncology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- Departments of Cancer Biology, Urology, Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Department of Population Health, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota.
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Visnyei K, Shahrokni A, Hashmi S, Orell J, Wild DMG. A case of groans, moans and stones with malignant undertones: Endometrioid carcinoma-associated hypercalcemia. Oncol Lett 2011; 3:335-337. [PMID: 22740907 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2011.475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2011] [Accepted: 10/14/2011] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy is frequently observed in patients with solid tumors. However, few instances have been described involving patients with gynecological malignancies. We report a case of endometrioid carcinoma of the uterine corpus in a patient who initially presented with hypercalcemia. The elevated calcium levels were found to be the result of an increased serum concentration of parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTHrP). PTHrP is commonly secreted by malignant cells and suppresses PTH. This case demonstrates that endometrial cancer should be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with symptomatic or asymptomatic hypercalcemia.
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- Koppany Visnyei
- Department of Medicine, Griffin Hospital, Yale School of Medicine, Derby, CT
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Le Tinier F, Vanhuyse M, Penel N, Dewas S, El-Bedoui S, Adenis A. Cancer-associated hypercalcaemia in squamous-cell malignancies: a survival and prognostic factor analysis. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2011; 40:938-42. [PMID: 21489752 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2010.11.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2010] [Revised: 10/26/2010] [Accepted: 11/12/2010] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The aim of this study is to analyse survival and prognostic factors in patients diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) presenting a first episode of cancer-associated hypercalcaemia (CAH). Retrospectively, the authors reviewed data from 220 patients with biopsy proven SCC who presented a first episode of CAH. They were treated in a single centre between 1995 and 2007. The survival analyses were done using the Kaplan-Meier method and Cox analysis. The primary endpoint was the overall survival from the date of hypercalcaemia episode. Median age was 55 years. Median survival was 64 days (1-197). Three independent prognostic factors were identified: brain metastasis (hazard ratio (HR)=2.58 CI (1.03-6.45)), corrected calcaemia>3 mmol/l (HR=1.45 CI (1.05-2.01)) and hypoalbuminaemia (HR=1.48 CI (1.07-2.04)). Using these factors, the authors performed a bedside prognostic score. In conclusion, median survival in patients diagnosed with SCC and CAH is extremely poor. The bedside prognostic score that the authors developed can help to anticipate patients' prognosis and adapt the treatment. This score needs to be validated on an independent cohort.
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- F Le Tinier
- Medical Oncology Department, Centre Oscar Lambret, Lille, France
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