Questions and Answers.

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Q: Dr Høgdall, your results clearly show that using the newest score seems to be better than the ROMA score because at least it uses age and we know that HE4 is related to age. My question is when you compare HE4 and CA125 with ROMA or with other things, are you using different cut-offs according to the age? Høgdall: No, for HE4 and CA125 we are not using different cut-offs depending on patient age. For our Copenhagen index a statistician created the equation which includes age of the patient alongside S-HE4 and S-CA125 to calculate the risk probability of EOC. Therefore, there is no need to use different age-related cut-offs