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ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2018

Value of combining serum carcinoembryonic antigen and PET/CT in predicting

Jincui Gu, Siqi Xu, Lixia Huang, Shaoli Li, Jian Wu, Junwen Xu, Jinlun Feng, Baomo Liu, Yanbin Zhou

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Article in Journal of thoracic disease, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Correlation between carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) expression and EGFR mutations in non-small-cell lung cancer: a meta-analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Jincui GuDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Siqi XuDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Lixia HuangDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Shaoli LiDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Jian WuDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Junwen XuDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Jinlun FengDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Baomo LiuDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Yanbin ZhouDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundWe sought to investigate the associations between pretreatment serum Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) level,

methodsWe retrospectively reviewed medical records of 210 NSCLC patients who underwent

results

conclusionsGender, histology, pretreatment serum CEA level and SUVmax are significant predictors for

Indexed as

carcinoembryonic antigenepidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)maximal standard uptake valueNon-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT)

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PMID29607142
PMCPMC5864650

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