[PDF] Top 20 The prognostic value of serum amyloid A in solid tumors: a meta-analysis

... first meta-analysis assessing the prognostic role of SAA in various solid ...The meta-analysis included a total of 2749 patients with solid tumors, including renal ... See full document

... our meta-analysis is the first systematic study to determine the prognostic value of LMR in patients with solid ...cut-off value, median age, sample size, and tumor ...promising ... See full document

... malignant solid tumors were retained for subsequent ...the prognostic value of FOXQ1 overexpression in patients with solid ...(multivariate analysis) ... See full document

... of solid tumors ...this meta-analysis to explore the prognostic value of Kindlin-2 expression in patients with solid ... See full document

... and meta-regression analyses were conducted (HR was con- sidered to be associated with covariates when the P value was less than ...sensitivity analysis by omitting each study in turn. The scope of ... See full document

... our meta-analysis has suggested that in most solid malignancies, higher expression of CCR7 is associated with poorer prognoses of ...valuable prognostic marker in ...potential value of ... See full document

... Two authors (LC and YX) independently extracted data from each eligible study by using predefined item forms. The following information, if available, was recorded: first author’s name, year of publication, study country ... See full document

... of tumors at different stages with different ...for prognostic use and provide novel insights into cancer ...tive prognostic marker for solid tumors, we conducted an updated ... See full document

... this meta-analysis is the most thor- ough appraisal of the clinical studies that investigated the prognostic value of NANOG expression in human solid ... See full document

... subgroup analysis, the heterogeneity across studies failed to be eliminated completely, which could result in bias of the outcome to a certain ...the prognostic value of SYK expression may be ... See full document

... the prognostic value of monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1) in solid tumors in recent ...the prognostic value of MCP-1 still remains controversial in patients with ... See full document

... pure-solid tumors are associated with a high SUVmax value and thus have greater malignant ...matched analysis to compare the survival outcomes of pure-solid tumors and ... See full document

... cut-off value need to be ...cut-off value were not significant, further studies with larger sample size are still needed to identify the most appropriate cut-off ... See full document

... Accumulating evidence shows that hypoxia is a common trait of solid malignancies, and tumors outgrow their own vasculature scale out a certain size could lead to hypoxia. Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1), ... See full document

... Three investigators independently extracted the data from eligible studies using a predefined form. The collected data included the name of first author, the publication year, patients’ country of origin, tumor type, ... See full document

... We sequentially removed each single study to determine whether any individual study could affect the pooled HR for OS, and the result of random-effects sensitivity analysis was neg (Figure S1). Furthermore, we ... See full document

... subgroup analysis for the sample source, we found that miR-17-5p was more strongly associated with the plasma/ serum subgroup (HR = ...subgroup analysis stratified by the cancer type, all three of ... See full document

... subgroups analysis was conducted based on the patient origin, cancer type, and the methods used to calculate HR (Table ...The prognostic role of miR-100 was also significant in the following subgroups: HR ... See full document

... cutoff value, number of participants, survival outcome, independent factor, and the method of anal- ...cut-off value were ...included solid cancer and ...the meta-analysis. ... See full document

... The searches were performed by two reviewers (Jian Xiao and Yong Zou) independently. Articles were searched on PubMed, Web of Science, and Embase (updated to February 19, 2016) with language restriction of English. The ... See full document