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Diagnostic value of circulating tumor cell detection in bladder and urothelial cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Background

The diagnostic value and prognostic significance of circulating tumor cell (CTC) detection in patients with bladder cancer is controversial. We performed a meta-analysis to consolidate current evidence regarding the use of CTC detection assays to diagnose bladder and other urothelial cancers and the association of CTC positivity with advanced, remote disease.

Methods

Studies that investigated the presence of CTCs in the peripheral blood of patients with bladder cancer and/or urothelial cancer were identified and reviewed. Sensitivities, specificities, and positive (LR+) and negative likelihood ratios (LR-) of CTC detection in individual studies were calculated and meta-analyzed by random effects model. Overall odds ratio of CTC positivity in patients with advanced disease versus those with organ-confined cancer was also calculated.

Results

Overall sensitivity of CTC detection assays was 35.1% (95%CI, 32.4-38%); specificity, LR+, and LR- was 89.4% (95%CI, 87.2-91.3%), 3.77 (95%CI, 1.95-7.30) and 0.72 (95%CI, 0.64-0.81). CTC-positive patients were significantly more likely to have advanced (stage III-IV) disease compared with CTC-negative patients (OR, 5.05; 95%CI, 2.49-10.26).

Conclusions

CTC evaluation can confirm tumor diagnosis and identify patients with advanced bladder cancer. However, due to the low overall sensitivity, CTC detection assays should not be used as initial screening tests.

SUBMITTER: Msaouel P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3161042 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Diagnostic value of circulating tumor cell detection in bladder and urothelial cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Msaouel Pavlos P Koutsilieris Michael M

BMC cancer 20110804

<h4>Background</h4>The diagnostic value and prognostic significance of circulating tumor cell (CTC) detection in patients with bladder cancer is controversial. We performed a meta-analysis to consolidate current evidence regarding the use of CTC detection assays to diagnose bladder and other urothelial cancers and the association of CTC positivity with advanced, remote disease.<h4>Methods</h4>Studies that investigated the presence of CTCs in the peripheral blood of patients with bladder cancer a ...[more]

PMID: 21816094

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Diagnostic value of circulating tumor cell detection in bladder and urothelial cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Diagnostic value of circulating tumor cell detection in bladder and urothelial cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis.

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