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Among the 117 patients with complete serial measurements of all five markers, decreases in CEA, CA72-4, CA125, and TPA were more frequent in responders than in nonresponders. Individual marker decreases showed limited discriminatory performance, whereas multi-marker thresholds showed complementary operating characteristics: a decrease in \u22652 markers had a sensitivity of 89.7%, while decreases in all five markers had a specificity of 93.2%. Patients with \u22653 elevated baseline markers had shorter median overall survival than those with &lt;3 elevated markers (8.0 vs. 18.8 months; HR, 2.269; p &lt; 0.001). 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