The prognostic significance of pretreatment serum CEA levels in gastric cancer: a meta-analysis including 14651 patients.

BACKGROUND:Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is commonly used as a serum tumor marker in clinical practice; however, its prognostic value for gastric cancer patients remains uncertain. This meta-analysis was performed to assess the prognostic value of CEA and investigate CEA as a tumor marker. METHODS:...

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Main Authors: Kai Deng, Li Yang, Bing Hu, Hao Wu, Hong Zhu, Chengwei Tang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4400039?pdf=render