Research Article
Prognostic Value of lncRNA PVT1 for Patients with Gastric Cancer: A Meta-Analysis
Table 1
The characteristics of included studies.
| Study | Country | Tumor stage | Sample size | Cut-off value | Follow-up (months, mean) | Detection methods | NOS score |
| Ding 2014 | China | I-IV | 31 | | NR | qRT-PCR | 7 | Kong 2015 | China | I-IV | 80 | Mean | NR | qRT-PCR | 8 | Yuan 2016 | China | I-IV | 111 | Mean | NR | qRT-PCR | 7 | Xu 2017 | China | I-IV | 190 | Mean | 32.34 | qRT-PCR | 8 | Huang 2017 | China | I-IV | 68 | Mean | NR | qRT-PCR | 8 | Chen 2017 | China | I-IV | 187 | NR | 26.44 | qRT-PCR | 7 | Niu 2020 | China | I-IV | 50 | NR | NR | qRT-PCR | 7 | Wang 2020 | China | I-IV | 30 | NR | NR | qRT-PCR | 7 |
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NR: not reported; qRT-PCR: quantitative real-time PCR.
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