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SynthesisClinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico2024

Exosomal noncoding RNAs as noninvasive biomarkers in bladder cancer: a diagnostic meta-analysis.

Liming Zhao, Jun Li, Zhongguang Xue, Jinfeng Wang

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Synthesis in Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Liming ZhaoDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Linyi People's Hospital, Shandong University, 27 Jiefang Road, Linyi, 276003, Shandong, People's Republic of China.
Jun LiDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Linyi People's Hospital, Shandong University, 27 Jiefang Road, Linyi, 276003, Shandong, People's Republic of China.
Zhongguang XueDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Linyi People's Hospital, Shandong University, 27 Jiefang Road, Linyi, 276003, Shandong, People's Republic of China.
Jinfeng WangDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Linyi People's Hospital, Shandong University, 27 Jiefang Road, Linyi, 276003, Shandong, People's Republic of China. xiaofeng_1982@mail.sdu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4454-8997
Shandong University · CN

Funding

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2018M642671Key Technology Research and Development Program of Shandong Province 2019GSF108275Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province ZR2020MH315
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundIn view of discordance consisting in different reports, a meta-analysis was conducted to comprehensively evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of exosomal noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) in blood and urine in the detection of bladder cancer.

methodsEligible studies were acquired by systematic retrieval through PubMed, Cochrane Library, and Embase. The pooled diagnostic efficacy was appraised by reckoning the area under the summary receiver operating characteristic (SROC) curve. The latent sources of heterogeneity were probed by subgroup analyses and meta-regression. STATA 12.0, Meta-DiSc 1.4, and RevMan 5.3 were applied to carry out all statistical analyses and plots.

resultsA total of 46 studies from 15 articles comprising 2622 controls and 3015 bladder cancer patients were included in our meta-analysis. Exosomal ncRNAs in blood and urine represented relatively satisfactory diagnostic efficacy in detecting bladder cancer, with a pooled sensitivity of 0.75, a specificity of 0.79, and an area under the SROC curve (AUC) of 0.84. Exosomal microRNAs (miRNAs) exhibited better diagnostic value with a pooled AUC of 0.91 than that of exosomal long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs). To some extent, the heterogeneity among studies was induced by exosomal ncRNA types (miRNA or lncRNA), exosomal ncRNA profiling (single- or multiple-ncRNA), sample size, specimen types, and ethnicity.

conclusionExosomal ncRNAs in blood and urine may play a vital role in diagnosing bladder cancer as prospective noninvasive biomarkers; nonetheless, their clinical performance needs to be confirmed by further massive proactive researches.

Indexed as

Biomarkers, TumorExosomesRNA, UntranslatedUrinary Bladder NeoplasmsHumansMicroRNAsRNA, Long NoncodingROC CurveBiomarkers, TumorMicroRNAsRNA, Long NoncodingRNA, UntranslatedBladder cancerExosomeMeta-analysisNcRNAsNoninvasive diagnosis

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PMID38227115
PMCPMC11108909
OpenAlexW4390910475

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