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Evaluation of prostate cancer antigen 3 for detecting prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 103 citations in OpenAlex.
- Diagnosis accuracy of PCA3 level in patients with prostate cancer: a systematic review with meta-analysis.International braz j urol : official journal of the Brazilian Society of UrologyPooled it
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- Pilot study of dual-arm absolute quantification of miR-130a and miR-365a in plasma and urine reveals 3p/5p strand-ratio shifts in prostate cancer.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Epigenetic and Liquid Biopsy Biomarkers in Prostate Cancer: Bridging Tumor Heterogeneity and Clinical Implementation.Cancers · 2026Review
- CKAP2, miR-941, miR-548 and LINC02577 as biomarkers for early diagnosis in colorectal cancer.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Deep learning assisted identification of SCUBE2 and SLC16 A5 combination in RNA-sequencing data as a novel specific potential diagnostic biomarker in prostate cancer.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2025Article
- In Search of Ideal Solutions for Cancer Diagnosis: From Conventional Methods to Protein Biomarkers in Liquid Biopsy.Proteomes · 2025Review
- Clinical significance of urine-based automated detection of GSTP1 methylation for the diagnosis of suspected prostate cancer patients.Translational andrology and urology · 2025Article
- Molecular diagnostics of prostate cancer: impact of molecular tests.Asian journal of andrology · 2024Review
- Prostate cancer biomarkers: from early diagnosis to precision treatment.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2024Review
- Novel frontiers in urogenital cancers: from molecular bases to preclinical models to tailor personalized treatments in ovarian and prostate cancer patients.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2024Review
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- The lncRNAs Gas5, MALAT1 and SNHG8 as diagnostic biomarkers for epithelial malignant pleural mesothelioma in Egyptian patients.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Construction of a clinically significant prostate cancer risk prediction model based on traditional diagnostic methods.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Article
- Biomarkers for Prostate Cancer: From Diagnosis to Treatment.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Analysis of genetic biomarkers, polymorphisms in ADME-related genes and their impact on pharmacotherapy for prostate cancer.Cancer cell international · 2023Review
- [ROC curves: general characteristics and their usefulness in clinical practice].Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2023Article
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- Biomarkers of Aggressive Prostate Cancer at Diagnosis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Previous studies indicate that prostate cancer antigen 3 (PCA3) is highly expressed in prostatic tumors. However, its clinical value has not been characterized. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical value of the urine PCA3 test in the diagnosis of prostate cancer by pooling the published data. Clinical trials utilizing the urine PCA3 test for diagnosing prostate cancer were retrieved from PubMed and Embase. A total of 46 clinical trials including 12,295 subjects were included in this meta-analysis. The pooled sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio (+LR), negative likelihood ratio (-LR), diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) and area under the curve (AUC) were 0.65 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.63-0.66), 0.73 (95% CI: 0.72-0.74), 2.23 (95% CI: 1.91-2.62), 0.48 (95% CI: 0.44-0.52), 5.31 (95% CI: 4.19-6.73) and 0.75 (95% CI: 0.74-0.77), respectively. In conclusion, the urine PCA3 test has acceptable sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of prostate cancer and can be used as a non-invasive method for that purpose.
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