[PDF] Top 20 Review Article Diagnostic performance of circulating tumor cells in lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

... the diagnostic value of circu- lating tumor cells (CTCs) for detecting lung ...a meta-analysis to consolidate all the current evidence to assess the diagnostic value of ... See full document

... grade, cancer type, nodal status, platinum sensitivity and ascites, but not with lymph node metastasis, resection status, tu- mor size, debulking or race of ovarian can- cer ...Ovarian cancer mainly grows ... See full document

... a meta-regression analyses according to the “publication year”, “Study lo- cation” (Region: Asia or not), “Study design” (Prospective or not), “Specimen types” (Sample: Plasma or Serum), “Sample size” (Sample size ... See full document

... blood cells, including cell size, cell density, membrane charge and migratory properties, has advan- tageous to analyze CTCs with intact functional cancer cells circulating in peripheral blood ... See full document

... subgroup meta-analysis of CTCs collected at different time points and their association with OS and ...subgroup analysis suggests that CTCs can act as a reliable prognostic indi- cator at every stage ... See full document

... lating tumor cells portended a worse overall survival in mPCa, which were the intermediar- ies between primary tumors and metastases [34, ...overall tumor volume or remove the primary tumor ... See full document

... Esophageal cancer (EC) is the eighth most com- monly diagnosed aggressive cancer and the sixth most common cause of death globally [1] with an estimated 455,800 new cases and 400,200 deaths in 2012 ... See full document

... Screening review articles and experimental studies (77 articles), excluding non-RCT literature (10 articles), the final 20 literatures were included in the ...3,853 cancer patients in the literature, ... See full document

... the circulating miRNAs, stored in microvesicles or combined with protein complexes before release, can be detected in serum or plasma in a stable form ...elevated circulating miRNA levels [22, ... See full document

... gastric cancer has long been debated ...gastric cancer have been carried out; however, the diagnostic per- formance and procedures of SLN biopsy in these studies ...this meta-analysis, ... See full document

... for tumor diagno- sis, which is widely used in clinical ...breast cancer, common pathological examina- tion methods include needle aspiration cytolo- gy, needle aspiration biopsy, and biopsy ...breast ... See full document

... Although VATS is associated with many benefits in comparison to thoracotomy, whether VATS can achieve the same LN dissection efficacy in patients with lung cancer remains controversial [7, 17, 18]. Flores ... See full document

... editorial review in September 2012 and was accepted for publication in February ...collection, analysis and interpretation, and for writing up their ... See full document

... 98,445 lung cancer patients suggested that statin use was associated with the benefit of all-cause mortal- ity, cancer-specific mortality, and overall ... See full document

... Another GAC-associated agent is the EBV herpesvirus (HHV-4), a double-stranded DNA virus with a 172,000 bases genome. EBV infection is also acquired by infants and when persistent may cause chronic gastric inflam- mation ... See full document

... survival analysis [15–18, ...subgroup analysis with the eight reports that excluded in-hospital death or have no in-hospital death was performed and a similar result was found (HR ... See full document

... The potential mechanisms of the effect of high- er pre-operation BMI on EC patients have not been clarified and elucidated thoroughly. For many kinds of chronic diseases including cancer, overweight and obese mean ... See full document

... Each included article was evaluated for its quality based on a framework for making a summary assessment of the risk of bias. The framework was developed specific- ally to assess the risk of selection bias, to ... See full document

... when tumor cells were exposed to additional IFN-γ or TNF-α ...T cells in tumor microenvironment ...visible tumor mass and maintained a long-term tumor- free survival in most of ... See full document

... colorectal cancer with a strong correlation between the amount of faecal tumour M2-PK and tumour stage ...bowel cancer along with FOBT and iFOBT so that both sensitivity and specificity of the screening ... See full document