Circulating Thrombospondin-4-Positive Fibroblasts Might be a Useful Marker for Diagnosis of Gastric Cancer.

Cancer Med · 2026 · PMC13140895 · PMID 41876963

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cir‐CAFs cases showed a nonsignificant trend of correlation with CEA ( p = 0.0597).

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In our analysis, CEA showed a trend of correlation with positivity for cir‐CAFs, which suggested that cir‐CAFs may be as or more effective than CEA as a marker of GC.

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