Determinants of psychological emotions in lung cancer patients and their correlations with tumor markers and inflammatory cytokines

Table 8 Correlation of Self-Rating Anxiety Scale and Self-Rating Depression Scale scores with marker levels

	CEA (ng/mL)		NSE (ng/mL)		CYFRA21-1 (ng/mL)		IL-6 (ng/L)		TNF-α (ng/L)
	r	P value	r	P value	r	P value	r	P value	r	P value
SAS	0.327	0.0002	0.486	< 0.0001	0.198	0.025	0.350	< 0.0001	0.436	< 0.0001
SDS	0.240	0.006	0.255	0.004	0.293	0.001	0.277	0.002	0.266	0.002

SAS: Self-Rating Anxiety Scale; SDS: Self-Rating Depression Scale; CEA: Carcinoembryonic antigen; NSE: Neuron-specific enolase; CYFRA21-1: Cytokeratin fragment antigen 21-1; IL: Interleukin; TNF: Tumor necrosis factor.