СOLORECTAL CANCER AND INCULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTORS

Abstract

Insulin-like growth factors (IGF) 1 and 2 and IGF binding proteins (IGFBP) 1 and 3 levels were measured by ELISA techniques in blood serum of 74 primary colorectal cancer (СRC) patients and 30 control practically healthy persons. Significant increase of IGF-1 level and decrease of IGFBP-3 level were demonstrated in patients’ serum as compared to control group. Sensitivity of IGF-1 as a prospective diagnostic СRС marker comprised 80 % with 75 % specificity using 140 ng/ml as cut-off level. Significant negative association was found be-tween both patients and donors’ age and serum IGF-1 levels, but in CRC patients it was much weaker than in control group. No associations were found between serum IGF 1 and 2 levels and main criteria of colorectal cancer progression.

Keywords

• igf-1
• igf-2
• igfbp-1
• igfbp-3
• colorectal cancer