Skip to main content

Table 3 Diagnostic role of small extracellular vesicles in cancer diseases

From: Small extracellular vesicles: the origins, current status, future prospects, and applications

Detecting disease

Biomarker

Source

Patient expression

Diagnostic yield

Ref.

Lung cancer

circRAPGEF5

Serum

Raise

AUC = 0.847,

Sensitivity:64.90%,

Specificity:95.60%

[118]

circ__0048856

Serum

Raise

AUC = 0.943.

Sensitivity:0.880

Specificity:0.800

[119]

miR-200b-3p

miR-3124-5p miR-92b-5p

Serum

miR-92b-5p ↓

miR-200b-3p↑

miR-3124-5p ↑

AUC = 0.93

[120]

miR-1290

miR-29c-3p

Plasma

miR-1290↑

miR-29c-3p↓

AUC1 = 0.934

AUC2 = 0.868

[121]

Gastric cancer

miR-10401-3p

miR-1255b-5p miR-6736-5p

Serum

Decline

AUC1 = 0.8333,

AUC2 = 0.8316

AUC3 = 0.8142

[122]

miR-31

miR-192

miR-375

Plasma

Raise

AUC1 = 0.734

AUC2 = 0.812

AUC3 = 0.745

[123]

Liver cancer

miR-10b-5p

Serum

Raise

AUC = 0.934,

Sensitivity:90.7%; Specificity:75.0%.

[124]

Breast cancer

miR-18a-3p

Serum

Raise

AUC = 0.83

[125]

miR-1246

Plasma

Raise

Sensitivity:97.30%

Specificity:93.94%

[126]

H19

Serum

Raise

Sensitivity:87.0%

Specificity:70.6%

[127]

annexin A2

Serum

Raise

AUC = 1.00

[128]

Colorectal cancer

miR-3937

Plasma

Raise

AUC = 0.827

[129]

miR-874

Serum

Decline

AUC = 0.818

Sensitivity:80.8%

Specificity:78.6%

[130]

circGAPVD1

Plasma

Raise

AUC = 0.7662,

Sensitivity:75.64%

Specificity:71.79%

[131]