Publications in journals with the highest impact factor endorse the value of this innovative diagnostic test
Mengual L, Burset M, Ars E, Ribal MJ, Lozano JJ, Miñana B, Sumoy L, Alcaraz A.
Partially degraded RNA from bladder washing is a suitable sample for studying gene expression profiles in bladder cancer. Eur Urol 2006, 50(6);1347-56. PMID: 16815626.
Mengual L, Burset M, Marin-Aguilera M, Ribal MJ, Alcaraz A.
Multiplex preamplification of specific cDNA targets prior to gene expression analysis by TaqMan Arrays. BMC Research Notes 2008, 1:21. PMID: 18710479.
Mengual L, Burset M, Ars E, Lozano JJ, Villavicencio H, Ribal MJ, Alcaraz A
Expression profiling of bladder cancer by DNA microarrays allows the identification of non-invasive diagnostic markers. J Urol 182:741-8,2009. PMID: 19539325
Mengual L, Burset M, Ribal MJ, Ars E, Marín-Aguilera M, Fernández M, Ingelmo-Torres M, Villavicencio H, Alcaraz A.
Gene expression signature in urine for diagnosis and aggressiveness assessment of bladder urothelial carcinoma. Clin Can Res. 2010 May 1;16(9):2624-33. PMID: 20406841..
Mengual L, Ribal MJ, Lozano JJ, Ingelmo-Torres M, Burset M, Fernández PL, Alcaraz A.
Validation study of a non-invasive urine test for diagnosis and prognosis assessment of bladder cancer. Evidence for improved models.J Urol. 2014 Jan.Vol 191. 261-269.
Ribal MJ, Mengual L, Lozano JJ, Ingelmo-Torres M, Palou J, Rodríguez-Faba O, Witjes JA, Van der Heijden AG, Medina R, Conde JM, Marberger M, Schmidbauer J, Fernández PL, Alcaraz A.
Gene expression test for the non-invasive diagnosis of bladder cancer: A prospective, blinded, international and multicenter validation study. Eur. J. Cancer. 2016 Feb. 54: 131-138.
Mengual L, Ribal MJ, Lozano JJ, Ingelmo-Torres M, Liang J, Han CT, Palou J, Rodríguez-Faba O, Witjes JA, Van der Heijden AG, Medina R, Conde JM, Marberger M, Schmidbauer J, Ye DW, Ye X, Meng X, Alcaraz A.
Prospective, blinded, international and multicenter validation of a gene expression test for the non-invasive diagnosis of bladder cancer. Poster displayed at the 111th American Urological Association’s Annual Meeting.San Diego, California, May 2016 .
Han C, Mengual L, Kang B, Lozano JJ, Yang X, Zhang C, Alcaraz A, Liang J, Ye D.
Validation of Urine-based Gene Classifiers for Detecting Bladder Cancer in a Chinese Study.J Cancer. 2018 Aug 6; 9(17): 3,208-3,215