Research Article

Potential Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers of Circular RNAs for Lung Cancer in China

Table 2

Clinical characteristics and quality evaluation of articles enrolled in the prognosis analysis.

First AuthorPublished YearCountryEthnicityCancer typeCircRNA typeName of the host geneExpressionSpecimen sourceNo. of patientsNo. of controlCutoff valueFollow-up time (month)TreatmentOS (HR)OS (LL)OS (UL)NOS Score

Li YS2018ChinaAsianNSCLChsa_circ_0016760SNAP47UTissue4538mean60Surgery1.911.1193.2598
Qi Y2018ChinaAsianNSCLChsa_circ_0007534DDX42UTissue5642mean60Surgery1.9691.1773.2938
Qiu MT2018ChinaAsianLACcirc-PRKCIPRKCIUTissue5534mean80Surgery2.6641.3275.3478
Qin S2018ChinaAsianNSCLCcirc-PVT1PVT1UTissue4347median60Surgery1.610.723.608
Qiu BQ2018ChinaAsianNSCLCcirc-FGFR3FGFR3UTissue3429mean80Surgery1.610.634.139
Su CY2018ChinaAsianNSCLCciRS-7CDR1asUTissue7751mean60Surgery1.7051.022.869
Wang J2018ChinaAsianNSCLChsa_circ_0067934PRKCIUTissue7980median60Surgery3.1981.2935.6739
Zhang XF2018ChinaAsianNSCLCciRS-7CDR1asUTissue4119median70Surgery6.1322.9237.5568
Zou QG2018ChinaAsianNSCLChsa_circ_0067934PRKCIUTissue4138median60Surgery2.1331.6773.2518
Ding LC2018ChinaAsianNSCLChsa_circ_001569/UTissue2927mean50Surgery2.020.9634.2339
Han JQ2018ChinaAsianLCcirc-BANPBANPUTissue2831median60Surgery1.1960.3234.4968
Liu W2018ChinaAsianLChsa_circ_103809/UTissue2222mean80Surgery1.080.215.606
Qu DH2018ChinaAsianNSCLChsa_circ_0020123PDZD8UTissue4040median60Surgery1.7470.525.8678
Yan B2018ChinaAsianNSCLCciRS-7CDR1asUTissue6666median90Surgery1.5751.0162.4408
Yu WJ2018ChinaAsianNSCLChsa_circ_0003998ARFGEF2UTissue3228mean40Surgery1.820.764.387
Zhao FC2018ChinaAsianLCcirc-FADS2FADS2UTissue2221median50Surgery3.461.1510.387
Liu TM2018ChinaAsianNSCLChsa_circ_0001649SHPRHDTissue2231mean60Surgery0.4710.2380.9348
Yang L2018ChinaAsianLChsa_circ_0046264P4HBDTissue5544median16Surgery0.5290.2721.0319
Chen DS2018ChinaAsianLChsa_circ_100395/DTissue3534mean150Surgery0.610.251.497

NSCLC, nonsmall cell lung cancer; LAC, lung adenocarcinoma; LC, lung cancer; U, upregulated expression; D, downregulated expression; OS, overall survival; HR, hazard ratio; LL, lower limit; UL, upper limit; NOS, Newcastle-Ottawa Scale.