Assessment of Seven Clinical Tumor Markers in Diagnosis of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer

Table 3

Correlation analysis of tumor markers and TNM stage in lung adenocarcinoma.

Parameters	T stage		N stage		M stage
	r	value	r	value	r	value
CEA	0.235	0.000	0.356	0.000	0.365	0.000
CA125	0.298	0.000	0.415	0.000	0.353	0.000
CA15-3	0.254	0.000	0.340	0.000	0.293	0.000
CA19-9	0.063	0.045	0.117	0.001	0.135	0.000
CA72-4	0.080	0.015	0.175	0.000	0.169	0.000
CYFRA21-1	0.268	0.000	0.351	0.000	0.312	0.000
SCC-Ag	0.080	0.016	0.000	0.497	−0.028	0.245