{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["In H"],"funding":["NCATS","NCATS NIH HHS","NIH"],"pagination":["1426-1432"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9268394"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["31(7)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>Gastric cancer lacks specific symptoms, resulting in diagnosis at later stages and high mortality. Serum pepsinogen is a biomarker for atrophic gastritis, a gastric cancer precursor, and may be useful to detect persons at increased risk of gastric cancer.<h4>Methods</h4>The Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial was conducted in the United States between 1993 and 2001. ELISA-based pepsinogen tests were conducted on prediagnostic serum samples of 105 PLCO participants who developed gastric cancer and 209 age, sex, and race-matched controls. Pepsinogen positive (PG+) was defined as pepsinogen I ≤ 70 μg/L and pepsinogen I/II ratio ≤3.0. Results of conditional logistic regression models, and sensitivity and specificity, of PG+ for gastric cancer"],"journal":["Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology"],"pubmed_title":["Serum Pepsinogen as a Biomarker for Gastric Cancer in the United States: A Nested Case-Control Study Using the PLCO Cancer Screening Trial Data."],"pmcid":["PMC9268394"],"funding_grant_id":["5UL1TR002556–05","UL1 TR002556"],"pubmed_authors":["Yang J","Sarkar S","Ward J","Epplein M","In H","Friedmann P","Parides M"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Serum Pepsinogen as a Biomarker for Gastric Cancer in the United States: A Nested Case-Control Study Using the PLCO Cancer Screening Trial Data.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>Gastric cancer lacks specific symptoms, resulting in diagnosis at later stages and high mortality. Serum pepsinogen is a biomarker for atrophic gastritis, a gastric cancer precursor, and may be useful to detect persons at increased risk of gastric cancer.<h4>Methods</h4>The Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial was conducted in the United States between 1993 and 2001. ELISA-based pepsinogen tests were conducted on prediagnostic serum samples of 105 PLCO participants who developed gastric cancer and 209 age, sex, and race-matched controls. Pepsinogen positive (PG+) was defined as pepsinogen I ≤ 70 μg/L and pepsinogen I/II ratio ≤3.0. Results of conditional logistic regression models, and sensitivity and specificity, of PG+ for gastric cancer","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Jul","modification":"2025-04-19T18:09:28.991Z","creation":"2025-04-19T18:09:28.991Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9268394","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35534235"],"doi":["10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-21-1328","10.1158/1055-9965.epi-21-1328"]}}