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Monoclonal antibody (moAB) TKH-2 directed to the tumor-associated O-linked sialyl 2-6-alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminyl (sialyl Tn; STN) epitope was generated by immunization with ovine submaxillary mucin (Kjeldsen et al, Cancer Res 48:2214-2220, 1988). We investigated whether circulating serum levels of STN antigen might influence the prognosis of patients with ovarian cancer
Serum samples were obtained from 126 healthy nonpregnant women, 157 patients with benign gynecologic disease, and 89 patients with histologically proven epithelial ovarian cancer. Circulating serum STN-antigen concentrations (U/mL) were determined by a competitive radioimmunoassay kit (Otsuka Assay Laboratories, Tokushima, Japan) in a one-step procedure
Serum antigen levels wer…