Evaluation of lysophosphatidic acid in vaginal fluid as a biomarker for ovarian cancer: A pilot study

• Main Authors: Evelyn Minis (Author), Kevin Holcomb (Author), Giovanni Sisti (Author), Dimitrios Nasioudis (Author), Tomi T. Kanninen (Author), Aikaterini Athanasiou (Author), Melissa K. Frey (Author), Eloise Chapman-Davis (Author), Thomas A. Caputo (Author), Steven S. Witkin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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There remains a need to differentiate between women with a benign or a malignant adnexal mass prior to surgery. As part of an ongoing evaluation of vaginal fluid compounds as potential tumor biomarkers we evaluated whether vaginal lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) predicted the subsequent diagnosis of a m...