
Prostate cancer antigen 3 as a biomarker in the urine for prostate cancer diagnosis: A meta-analysis
Author(s) -
Wu-Jin Xue,
Xiu-Li Ying,
Jinhong Jiang,
Yehui Xu
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.145881
Subject(s) - medicine , prostate cancer , confidence interval , diagnostic odds ratio , cochrane library , urine , prostate specific antigen , meta analysis , pca3 , odds ratio , receiver operating characteristic , oncology , cancer , likelihood ratios in diagnostic testing , rectal examination , biomarker , gynecology , biochemistry , chemistry
The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical value of urine Prostate cancer antigen 3 (PCA3) test in the diagnosis of prostate cancer by pooling the published data.