Clinical implications of estrone sulfate measurement in laboratory medicine.

Crit Rev Clin Lab Sci

a Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine , McMaster University, Hamilton , Ontario , Canada and.

Published: March 2017

Estrone sulfate (ES) is the most abundant circulating estrogen and it has the potential to be used as a biomarker in certain conditions where estimation of low levels of estrogen or changes in relative levels of estrogens are important. This review will critically consider the role of estimating ES for clinical laboratory practice. As ES is an estrogen, a wider discussion of estrogens is included to contextualize the review. Assays have been available for a number of years for these estrogens and they have been measured in a number of clinical research studies. However, ES remains a rarely ordered test. This review highlights the literature that suggests the possible advantages of measuring ES in addition to, or possibly in place of, the more commonly measured estradiol (E) and the less commonly measured estrone (E). The potential biomarker role of ES in risk stratification for breast cancer, in promotion of proliferation of endometrial cancer, in prognostic information in advanced prostatic carcinoma, and in the monitoring of response to certain hormonal therapy for malignancy is discussed. The methods available for the measurement of ES are reviewed and the limitations of the current methodologies are described. In conclusion, ES has some interesting potential applications in clinical laboratory medicine that require further investigation.

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