Marker Ki-67 is a potential biomarker for the diagnosis and prognosis of prostate cancer based on two cohorts
Zhen Song, Department of Urology, Taixing People’s Hospital, Taizhou 225400, Jiangsu Province, China
Zhen Song, Jiang-Lei Zhang, Jun Ouyang, Zhi-Yu Zhang, Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215000, Jiangsu Province, China
Qi Zhou, Department of Reproductive Medicine Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215000, Jiangsu Province, China
Co-first authors: Zhen Song and Qi Zhou.
Author contributions: Zhang ZY designed the research; Song Z, Zhou Q, and Zhang ZY collected and analyzed the data; Song Z and Zhou Q wrote the paper; Zhang JL and Ouyang J provided funding support for this work; Zhang ZY reviewed and revised the paper.
Supported by Suzhou Science and Technology Project, No. SYS2019053.
Institutional review board statement: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (revised in 2013). The study was approved by the ethics committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University (No. 119).
Informed consent statement: Informed written consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
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https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Zhi-Yu Zhang, PhD, Doctor, Surgeon, Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, No. 188 Shizi Street, Gusu District, Suzhou 215000, Jiangsu Province, China. abner_666@126.com
Received: August 21, 2023
Peer-review started: August 21, 2023
First decision: November 28, 2023
Revised: November 30, 2023
Accepted: December 15, 2023
Article in press: December 15, 2023
Published online: January 6, 2024