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BIOMARKERS
Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages 95-102Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/1354750X.2020.1871411
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Gastric cancer; trefoil factor 3; diagnosis; immunohistochemistry; meta-analysis
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TFF3 shows promise as a biomarker for gastric cancer, with its expression potentially playing a role in invasion, metastasis, and differentiation of the disease.
Objective To assess the diagnostic value of Trefoil factor 3 (TFF3) and the correlation between TFF3 expression and clinicopathological features in patients with gastric cancer (GC). Methods PubMed, The Cochrane, EMbase, and Web of Science were retrieved comprehensively to collect relevant literature. The search ended on 31 May 2020. All data were analyzed using PubMed, The Cochrane, EMbase, and Web of Science were retrieved to collect relevant articles. All data from the included studies were subjected to meta-analysis using Stata 12.0 software. Results Seventeen studies involved 4654 subjects were included. For the diagnostic value of TFF3 for GC, the sensitivity, specificity, and AUC were 0.71, 0.80, and 0.80, respectively. For the clinicopathological value of TFF3, tissue TFF3 expression showed a higher risk of lymph node metastasis (OR 2.20, 95% CI 1.75-2.78, p < 0.001) and muscularis propria invasion (>= T2) (1.51, 1.13-2.03, p = 0.006), as well as worse TNM stage (2.26, 1.63-3.12, p < 0.001) and histological type (1.72, 1.34-2.20, p < 0.001), while no apparent relationship was found for serous membrane invasion (T4), venous invasion, and peritoneal metastasis. Conclusion TFF3 may be a promising biomarker for GC, and the TFF3 expression is likely to be involved in the invasion, metastasis, and differentiation of GC.
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