Research Article

Prognostic Value of lncRNA PVT1 for Patients with Gastric Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

Table 1

The characteristics of included studies.

StudyCountryTumor stageSample sizeCut-off valueFollow-up (months, mean)Detection methodsNOS score

Ding 2014ChinaI-IV31NRqRT-PCR7
Kong 2015ChinaI-IV80MeanNRqRT-PCR8
Yuan 2016ChinaI-IV111MeanNRqRT-PCR7
Xu 2017ChinaI-IV190Mean32.34qRT-PCR8
Huang 2017ChinaI-IV68MeanNRqRT-PCR8
Chen 2017ChinaI-IV187NR26.44qRT-PCR7
Niu 2020ChinaI-IV50NRNRqRT-PCR7
Wang 2020ChinaI-IV30NRNRqRT-PCR7

NR: not reported; qRT-PCR: quantitative real-time PCR.