Hizuru Amano, Hiroo Uchida, Kazuharu Harada, Atsushi Narita, Shigehisa Fumino, Yuji Yamada, Shun Kumano, Mayumi Abe, Takashi Ishigaki, Minoru Sakairi, Chiyoe Shirota, Takahisa Tainaka, Wataru Sumida, Kazuki Yokota, Satoshi Makita, Shuhei Karakawa, Yuichi Mitani, Shojiro Matsumoto, Yutaka Tomioka, Hideki Muramatsu, Nobuhiro Nishio, Tsuyoshi Osawa, Masataka Taguri, Katsuyoshi Koh, Tatsuro Tajiri, Motohiro Kato, Kimikazu Matsumoto, Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Akinari Hinoki
The urinary catecholamine metabolites, homovanillic acid (HVA) and vanillylmandelic acid (VMA), are used for the adjunctive diagnosis of neuroblastomas. We aimed to develop a scoring system for the diagnosis and pretreatment risk assessment of neuroblastoma, incorporating age and other urinary catecholamine metabolite combinations. Urine samples from 227 controls (227 samples) and 68 patients with neuroblastoma (228 samples) were evaluated. First, the catecholamine metabolites vanillactic acid (VLA) and 3-methoxytyramine sulfate (MTS) were identified as urinary marker candidates through comprehensive analysis using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry...
February 27, 2024: Cancer Science