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SCIENCE CHINA-LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 53, Issue 4, Pages 524-530Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-010-0082-8
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Epstein-Barr virus; gastric carcinoma; meta-analysis; in situ hybridization
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- State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control [2008SKLID302]
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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection has been causally associated with occurrence of many malignant neoplasms. EBV-encoded small RNAs (EBERs) have been detected from about 10% of gastric carcinoma tissue cells, suggesting that EBV infection is associated with the development of gastric carcinoma. The present study pooled the data from the papers concerning EBV-related gastric cancers and performed a meta-analysis of 22 research papers. Among these papers, a total of 5475 cases with gastric cancer were enrolled, of whom 411 cases were found EBV-positive, with the EBV-positive rate being 7.5%. Among the EBV-positive gastric cancer cases, the detection rate was 11.1% in males and 3.0% in females. Compared with EBV-negative gastric cancer, EBV-positive gastric cancer had less lymph node metastasis. Based on the histological typing, of the EBV-positive gastric cancers, the diffuse type was 8.1%, and intestinal type was 8.0%. The examined specimen types included stored paraffin blocks and fresh surgically removed specimens, their EBV positive rates were 7.9% and 6.5% respectively. In terms of geographical distribution, the detection rate of EBV-positive gastric cancer was 9.4% in America, 6.1% in Asia and 9.1% in Europe. Meta-analysis showed that EBV infection occurred only in gastric cancer tissue cells and was significantly associated with the patients' gender, lymph node metastases, and the location where tumor tissue generated and geographical distribution (P < 0.05), but was not significantly associated with the patients' histological types of tumor and the types of specimens (P > 0.05). These results suggested that EBV-positive gastric cancer has distinct clinicopathological features.
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