And, as Richard wrote, there is no mention of CEA or CA19-9...
>From: Joseph WATINE <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Joseph WATINE <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: diagnosis of ovarian cancer using CA125
>Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 09:39:00 +0000
>
>thanks Vanessa for the link where we can find how the index (RMI) is
>calculated
>
>( http://www.rcog.org.uk/resources/Public/pdf/Ovarian_Cysts_No34.pdf )
>
>the 2 publications about RMI quoted in this guideline were written by the
>same authors (the "discoverers" of the index I suppose); on MEDLINE, one
>can also find other similar papers, e.g. the one whose abstract is copied
>below, where one can see that sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV of this
>test are quite far from 100%
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