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The correlation of miR-21 levels after normalization to different candidate reference genes (SNORD43, RNU6-2, RNU1-4, miR-106a, miR-let-7a and SNORD48) or cel-mir-39 shows the usability of all tested genes, although SNORD43 (or a combination of SNORD43/RNU1-4) should be favored because of superior stability and it seems to be easier to carry out than an absolute quantification strategy (cel-miR-39). Interestingly, serum miR-21 levels were similar in patients with PCA, RCC, BCA and CTRL patients, regardless of the normalization strategy. This was somewhat surprising, because miR-21 was shown to be overexpressed http://www.selleckchem.com/products/bay-57-1293.html in PCA,3 RCC32,33 and BCA34,35 tissue, and recently, also to be circulating at increased levels in the blood of patients with castration-resistant PCA36 and other tumor entities (esophageal squamous cell carcinoma,37 non-small cell lung cancer,38 breast cancer,39 B-cell lymphoma,5 pancreatic carcinoma40,41). However, the use of miR-21 as a universal cancer marker is questioned by other studies that failed to show an increase of miR-21 in the cancer http://www.selleckchem.com/products/gsk2126458.html group (B-cell lymphoma42) or the validation cohort (esophageal squamous cell carcinoma43). An increase of miR-21 similar to patients with hepatocellular carcinoma was also seen in patients with chronic hepatitis-B44 and hepatitis-C,45,46 or benign breast disease.39 Furthermore, the increase of miR-21 was sometimes only observed in patients with advanced disease: Zhang et?al. showed the increase of miR-21 in castration-resistant PCA patients, whereas miR-21 levels were similar in patients with benign prostate hyperplasia, localized PCA and metastatic PCA (prostate-specific antigen http://www.selleck.cn/products/CAL-101.html to those with American Joint Committee on Cancer stage?IV, whereas controls and stage?I�CIII had similar levels.22 Furthermore, some studies included a high number of patients with advanced/metastatic disease in the cancer cohorts,41,43 and did not provide separate comparisons for patients with early disease and control subjects. Our cohort included only a few patients with advanced cancer. None of them had distant metastases and only one patient with PCA and five patients with MIBC had lymph node metastases. The similarity of serum miR-21 in cancer patients and control subjects might therefore also be explained by the composition of the cancer cohort. We did not carry out correlation analysis of miR-21 levels with clinical-pathological parameters because of the low statistical power in these small cohorts. An explanation for our finding of similar miR-21 levels in cancer patients and control subjects might also be the high background noise from miRNA of non-cancerous origin.