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SynthesisOncotarget2016

Overexpression of stathmin promotes metastasis and growth of malignant solid tumors: a systemic review and meta-analysis.

Rong Biaoxue, Liu Hua, Gao Wenlong, Yang Shuanying

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Synthesis in Oncotarget, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. [Prognostic Value of STMN1 Expression in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: 
A Meta-analysis].Zhongguo fei ai za zhi = Chinese journal of lung cancer · 2024
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  2. Biomarkers of tumor invasiveness in proteomics (Review).International journal of oncology · 2020
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  9. [Advances in Molecular Biomarker for Pulmonary Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma].Zhongguo fei ai za zhi = Chinese journal of lung cancer · 2020
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  12. Zyxin (ZYX) promotes invasion and acts as a biomarker for aggressive phenotypes of human glioblastoma multiforme.Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Rong BiaoxueDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Medical University, Xi'an, China.
Liu HuaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Gansu Provincial Hospital, Lanzhou, China.
Gao WenlongDepartment of Statistics and Epidemiology, Medical College, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Yang ShuanyingDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Second Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Gansu Provincial Hospital · CNLanzhou University · CNSecond Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University · CNXi'an Medical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stathmin has been investigated to be involved in development and progress of malignant tumors. This study was to clarify the relationship between expression of stathmin and tumors and assess its clinical significance. We identified 25 studies with a total of 3,571 individuals from the electronic bibliographic databases and strictly evaluated the quality and heterogeneity of included studies. We analysed the relationship between expression of stathmin and clinical characteristics by the fixed-effects and random-effects of meta-analysis and constructed a summary receiver-operator characteristic curve to estimate the test characteristics. The results showed that patients with cancer displayed a higher stathmin expression than those of non-cancer individuals (OR, 0.31), and overexpression of stathmin correlated with tumor cell differentiation (OR, 0.73), lymph node invasion (OR, 0.80) and high TNM stage (OR, 0.67). The pooled sensitivity of stathmin for distinguishing malignant tumors was 0.73 and the specificity was 0.77. The maximum balance joint for sensitivity and specificity (the Q-value) was 0.7566 and the area under the curve (AUC) was 0.8234. In conclusion, these results showed that overexpression of stathmin intimately correlated with malignant behavior of tumors, suggesting it could be a risk factor of malignant tumors. Stathmin had great sensitivity and specificity indicated it should be a significant molecular biomarker for malignant tumors.

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Up-RegulationAgedFemaleGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm MetastasisNeoplasmsNeoplasm StagingROC CurveStathminSurvival AnalysisStathminSTMN1 protein, humandiagnosisimmunohistochemistrymeta-analysisstathmintumors

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PMID27806343
PMCPMC5346693
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