Objectives: In order to improve the early diagnosis of ovarian cancer
(OC), we evaluated human epididymis secretory protein 4 (HE4), the risk of
malignancy index (RMI), the risk of ovarian malignancy algorithm (ROMA), and the
Copenhagen Index (CPH-I) in their ability to predict the risk of adnexal masses
being malignant, and in discriminating between serous and mucinous ovarian
tumors. Methods: A study consisting of 509 patients who were diagnosed
with benign, borderline, and malignant adnexal tumors was conducted. We analyzed
the values of HE4, RMI, ROMA, and CPH-I. In addition, CA125, CEA, CA125/CEA
ratio, CA199, and CA125/CA199 ratio were also assessed to determine their
predictive values to diagnoses serous or mucinous ovarian tumors.
Results: To differentiate between benign and borderline ovarian tumors,
we evaluated RMI and CPH-I scores which showed high AUC (0.7593, and 0.7128,
respectively), but neither of them showed both high sensitivity and specificity.
When discriminating benign and malignant tumors, RMI and CPH-I performed the best
for premenopausal women; whereas ROMA and HE4 performed the best for
postmenopausal women. Patients with values above the cutoff for CA125 (
