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Table 3 Salivary TNFα in oral cancer

From: Salivary cytokines as biomarkers of oral cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Cytokine

Author

Year

Groups

Sample (n)

Mean ± SD (pg/ml)

Statistic test

P Value

AUC

TNF – α

JURETIĆ M. et al.

2013

Oral Cancer

19

0.739 ± 0.176

Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney

< 0.001

Control

19

0.013 ± 0.033

Premalignant

19

0.601 ± 0.178

RHODUS, N.L. et al.

2005 a

Oral Cancer

13

28.9 ± 14.6

Not described

< 0.01

Premalignant

13

10.5 ± 7.4

Control

13

3.0 ± 1.0

SAHEBJAMEE, M. et al.

2008

Oral Cancer

9

35.2 ± 51.8

One Sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and Mann-Whitney U

< 0.05

Control

9

4.1 ± 2.1

LEE, L.T. et al.

2018

Oral Cancer

41

27.7 ± 30.9

Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Mann-Whitney

< 0.001

0.749 (Sensitivity: 39.02%

Specificity: 100%

p = 0.0001)

Control

24

8.6 ± 7.3

POLZ-DACEWICZ, M. et al.

2016

Oral Cancer

78

23,100.0

Pearson Chi-Square tests. Mann-Whitney and Kruksal-Wallis

0.00002

Control

40

11,300.0

BRAILO, V. et al.

2012

Oral Cancer

28

34.0 ± 21.6

Smirnoff Kolmogorof and Kruskal Wallis

0.126

Leukoplakia

29

30.1 ± 3.01

Control

31

38.0 ± 3.23

KRISHNAN, R. et al.

2014

Cancer

100

311.9 ± 95.3

Shapiro Wilk. Kruskal-Wallis e Mann-Whitney U

Cancer x Premalignant = p < 0.05

Cancer x Control = p < 0.001

0.981

(95%CI: 0.968–0.995)

Leukoplakia

50

180.1 ± 52.4

Premalignant

50

166.5 ± 49.4

Control

100

4.5 ± 2.5

RHODUS, N.L. et al.

2005b

Oral lichen planus

13

74.2 ± 38.3

One-way ANOVA, Student-Newman- Keuls q-test; teste-t.

< 0.0001

Oral Cancer

13

103.6 ± 61.7

Control

13

3.4 ± 2.1