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SynthesisFrontiers in oncology2024

Diagnostic value of circulating miR-155 for breast cancer: a meta-analysis.

Fang Wang, Jin Wang, Hongjiang Zhang, Baobao Fu, Yanshun Zhang, Qianqian Jia, Yong Wang

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Synthesis in Frontiers in oncology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  6. miRNAs as emerging predictors of tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025
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  8. Rfam 15: RNA families database in 2025.Nucleic acids research · 2025
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  10. The potential role of miR-155 in the tumorigenesis of cervical cancer.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025
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  13. Rfam 15: RNA families database in 2025.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Fang WangDepartment of Oncology, Anhui University of Technology First Affiliated Hospital Huainan, Huainan, Anhui, China.
Jin WangDepartment of Oncology, Anhui University of Technology First Affiliated Hospital Huainan, Huainan, Anhui, China.
Hongjiang ZhangDepartment of Oncology, Anhui University of Technology First Affiliated Hospital Huainan, Huainan, Anhui, China.
Baobao FuDepartment of Oncology, Anhui University of Technology First Affiliated Hospital Huainan, Huainan, Anhui, China.
Yanshun ZhangDepartment of Oncology, Anhui University of Technology First Affiliated Hospital Huainan, Huainan, Anhui, China.
Qianqian JiaDepartment of Oncology, Anhui University of Technology First Affiliated Hospital Huainan, Huainan, Anhui, China.
Yong WangDepartment of Oncology, Anhui University of Technology First Affiliated Hospital Huainan, Huainan, Anhui, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Backgrounds: The value of circulating microRNA (miR)-155 for breast cancer (BC) diagnosis may differ in different studies. Therefore, we conducted this systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the potential application of circulating miR-155 in the diagnosis of BC. Methods: Articles published before December 2023 and in English were searched in these databases: PubMed, Web of Science, Medline, EMBASE and Google Scholar. A summary of sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratios (PLR), negative likelihood ratios (NLR), and diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) were calculated from the true positive (TP), true negative (TN), false positive (FP) and false negative (FN) of each study. Additionally, the summary receive-operating characteristics (SROC) curve was constructed to summarize the TP and FP rates. Results: The pooled parameters calculated were as follows: sensitivity, 0.93 (95% CI: 0.83-0.97); specificity, 0.85 (95% CI: 0.74-0.92); PLR, 6.4 (95% CI: 3.4-11.9); NLR, 0.09 (95% CI: 0.04-0.20); and DOR, 74 (95% CI: 22-247). The analysis showed a significant heterogeneity (sensitivity, I Conclusion: Circulating miR-155 has a potential in the diagnosis of BC.

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breast cancermeta-analysismicroRNAmiR-155systematic review

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PMID38590648
PMCPMC10999615

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