ArticleJournal of cancer research and clinical oncology2023
Down-regulated lncRNA ROR in tumor-educated platelets as a liquid-biopsy biomarker for nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
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- Global trends in research of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a bibliometric and visualization analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Pooled it
- Non-coding RNAs in tumor-educated platelets: emerging roles in cancer progression, biomarker discovery, and therapeutic targeting.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
- Upregulated lncRNA AK058003 in Tumor-Educated Platelets and Plasma as Liquid Biopsy Biomarkers for Esophageal Cancer.Cancer management and research · 2026Article
- A Ubiquitination-Related Gene Prognostic Signature and the Oncogenic Role of RNF149 in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: scRNAseq- Based Bioinformatics and Experimental Validation.Current medicinal chemistry · 2026Article
- The role of platelets in cancer: from their influence on tumor progression to their potential use in liquid biopsy.Biomarker research · 2025Review
- The Role of ctDNA and Liquid Biopsy in the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Head and Neck Cancer: Towards Precision Medicine.Cancers · 2024Review
- Functional Relevance of the Long Intergenic Non-Coding RNA Regulator of Reprogramming (Linc-ROR) in Cancer Proliferation, Metastasis, and Drug Resistance.Non-coding RNA · 2023Review
- Contents in tumor-educated platelets as the novel biosource for cancer diagnostics.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Review
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Abstract
purposesTo evaluate the diagnostic value of tumor-educated platelets (TEP) lncRNA ROR for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC).
methodsQuantitative real-time PCR was used to determine the expression level of TEP lncRNA ROR in NPC patients (n = 50) as compared to normal subjects (n = 33). The ROC curve analysis was performed to assess the diagnostic value of TEP lncRNA ROR for NPC. Correlations between TEP lncRNA ROR and clinical parameters were further analyzed.
resultsThe median of TEP lncRNA ROR was significantly lower in NPC patients than that in normal subjects (0.0209 vs 0.0610, p = 0.0019), while no significant difference was found in plasma lncRNA ROR. ROC analysis showed that TEP lncRNA ROR had a sensitivity of 60%, specificity of 70%, and accuracy of 63.9% in diagnosing NPC, and the area under ROC curve (AUC) was 0.70. The expression level of TEP lncRNA ROR in NPC showed no significant difference among different TNM stages. However, low level of TEP lncRNA ROR correlated well with positive Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA (kappa value = 0.314, p = 0.06), TEP lncRNA ROR and EBV DNA had similar diagnostic positive rate (58.3%) for NPC, and the combination of TEP lncRNA ROR and EBV DNA increased the positive rate to 74%.
conclusionThe expression level of TEP lncRNA ROR was down-regulated in NPC and the diagnostic value of TEP lncRNA ROR was similar to EBV DNA. Our study indicated that TEP lncRNA ROR might serve as a novel type of liquid biopsy biomarker in diagnosis of NPC patients.
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