Purpose: Bladder cancer (BC) is the 10th most common form of cancer worldwide and the 2nd most common cancer of the urinary tract after prostate cancer, taking into account both incidence and prevalence.
Materials/methods: Tissues from patients with BC and also tissue extracts were analyzed by laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging (LDI-MSI) with monoisotopic silver-109 nanoparticles-enhanced target (AgNPET).
Results: Univariate and multivariate statistical analyses revealed 10 metabolites that differentiated between tumor and normal tissues from six patients with diagnosed BC. Selected metabolites are discussed in detail in relation to their mass spectrometry (MS) imaging results. The pathway analysis enabled us to link these compounds with 17 metabolic pathways.
Conclusions: According to receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis of biomarkers, 10 known metabolites were identified as the new potential biomarkers with areas under the curve (AUC) higher than >0.99. In both univariate and multivariate analysis, it was predicted that these compounds could serve as useful discriminators of cancerous versus normal tissue in patients diagnosed with BC.
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