ArticleMolecular and clinical oncology2015
Microsatellite instability and survival in gastric cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Prognostic significance of CD8 and TCF1 double positive T cell subset in microsatellite unstable gastric cancer.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- An elevated rate of whole-genome duplications in cancers from Black patients.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Occult gastric carcinoma with microsatellite instability diagnosed 10 years after excision of metastatic lymph node: a case report.Surgical case reports · 2024Article
- Novel WRN Helicase Inhibitors Selectively Target Microsatellite-Unstable Cancer Cells.Cancer discovery · 2024Article
- Application of immune checkpoint inhibitors and microsatellite instability in gastric cancer.World journal of gastroenterology · 2024Article
- Management of Microsatellite Instability High (MSI-H) Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2024Review
- The ratio of intratumoral CD15Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2024Article
- Mutational separation and clinical outcomes ofWorld journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2023Article
- Identification and validation of a PD-L1-related signature from mass spectrometry in gastric cancer.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2023Article
- Extracellular volume fraction determined by equilibrium contrast-enhanced computed tomography: correlation with histopathological findings in gastric cancer.Japanese journal of radiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Microsatellite instability (MSI) is associated with the prognosis in several cancers and is used for determination of the chemotherapy regimen in stage II colon cancer in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guideline. However, the association between MSI and the prognosis of gastric cancer remains unclear. PubMed database was searched until January 2014 using MeSH terms and key words to identify the studies evaluating MSI and prognosis of gastric cancer and the references were manually searched. The main outcome was the overall survival rate and the subordinate outcome was the association between high-frequency MSI (MSI-H) and clinicopathological characteristics. Eight studies met the inclusion criteria and the majority of data were collected retrospectively. There were 1,976 patients, 431 of which were MSI-H patients, with a range of 11.68-33.82%. Four studies used the National Cancer Institute panel to define MSI-H, the other four had microsatellite markers ranging 2-11. Significant associations were found in three studies and the overall summary estimate was hazard ratio, 0.63 (95% confidence interval, 0.52-0.77), with no evidence of inter-study heterogeneity (I
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