Serum Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 in Pancreatic Cancer

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Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to determine the association of clinical factors and the protein MCP-1 with pancreatic cancer status. An assessment of sensitivity and specificity of this model was completed using receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) methods. Recursive partitioning analysis was used to demonstrate the relationship of log MCP-1 with demographic and clinical characteristics. The lowest levels of log MCP-1 were obtained in benign nonobese patients under the age of 55 years (3.59). Benign nonobese patients aged 55 years and over had average log MCP-1 levels of 4.81, and nonobese cancer patients had log MCP-1 levels of 4.94. Obese patients, regardless of cancer status, had the highest level of log MCP-1 (6.68).