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ArticleTherapeutic advances in medical oncology2020

Opportunistic screening and survival prediction of digestive cancers by the combination of blood

Lele Song, Yan Chen, Yuan Gong, Jun Wan, Shaohua Guo, Hongyi Liu, Yuemin Li, Zhen Zeng, Yinying Lu

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Article in Therapeutic advances in medical oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lele SongDepartment of Radiotherapy, The Eighth Medical Center of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, No.17, Heishanhu Road, Beijing 100091, P.R. China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0296-2978
Yan ChenComprehensive Liver Cancer Department, The Fifth Medical Center of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, P.R. China.
Yuan GongDepartment of Gastroenterology, The Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, P.R. China.
Jun WanDepartment of Gastroenterology, The Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, P.R. China.
Shaohua GuoDepartment of General Surgery, The Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, P.R. China.
Hongyi LiuDepartment of General Surgery, The Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, P.R. China.
Yuemin LiDepartment of Radiotherapy, The Eighth Medical Center of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, P.R. China.
Zhen ZengComprehensive Liver Cancer Department, The Fifth Medical Center of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100039 P.R. China.
Yinying LuComprehensive Liver Cancer Department, The Fifth Medical Center of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100039 P.R. China.
Chinese PLA General Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe early detection of digestive cancers and precancerous diseases remains a significant challenge. This study aimed to investigate the performance of the blood methylated

methodsOpportunistic screening was performed in the participating hospitals on outpatients and inpatients who met specific inclusion criteria. We recruited a total of 2030 subjects, including 764 cancer patients [291 colorectal cancer (CRC), 239 gastric cancer (GC), 106 esophageal cancer (EC), and 128 hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)], 423 subjects with precancerous diseases, and 843 normal subjects. All samples were transported to an authenticated clinical laboratory where the

resultsWhen used separately, the

conclusionThe blood

Indexed as

colorectal canceresophageal cancergastric cancerhepatocellular carcinomaSEPT9

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PMID33403008
PMCPMC7745555
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