[PDF] Top 20 Modifiable factors and esophageal cancer: a systematic review of published meta-analyses.

... risk factors, leading to the exclusion of many studies focusing on pharmacological treatments ...drugs) and genetic factors. However, some of the latter are widely recognized as ... See full document

... population, and used a PCR detection method for ...level of HPV 16 prevalence in Chinese patients with esophageal cancer, and concluded that HPV-16 infection may be a risk factor for ... See full document

... similar meta-analysis included papers published before June 2014 and was pub- lished in September 2014 ...This meta-analysis pooled the relative risks comparing the high- est versus lowest ... See full document

... 2 and χ 2 ...<0.1 and I 2 was ...power of tests of heterogeneity and the likelihood that clinical heterogeneity may exist even if statistical heterogeneity cannot be demonstrated ... See full document

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... present meta-analysis has ...all of the included studies were retrospective samples rather than randomized controlled trials, and the clinicians could not be blinded to the selection of ... See full document

... these meta-analyses, in particular, the educa- tion level meta-analyses all had high levels of heterogeneity, indicating that the summary results should be interpreted with ...several ... See full document

... this meta-analysis that should be considered. First, cancer is a multi-factorial disease including complex interactions from environmental exposure to gene ...this meta-analysis, we had insufficient ... See full document

... Prostate cancer (PCa) remains as one of the most common cause of cancer related death among men in the ...value of other biomarkers such as RAS association domain family protein 1 A ... See full document

... intake and PCa risk was more evident in studies without adjustment for smoking compared with studies with such adjustment(Table 2), suggesting more high-quality observational studies are warranted to verify the ... See full document

... EMBASE and PsycINFO databases from inception to 7 October 2016 to identify systematic reviews and meta- analyses of observational studies ex- amining associations of ... See full document

... measure of selenium status, such as serum, plasma, hair, nail, or lung tissue selenium levels, and had to examine risk of lung cancer either prospectively or be conducted in patients with lung ... See full document

... our meta-analysis demonstrated an association between specific cellular immune response and clinical benefit, both in prostate cancer and RCC trials, thus implying a proof of concept ... See full document

... Ki23057, and ponatinib, and the highly selective inhibitors AZD4547 and ...efficacy of AZD4547 and BGJ398 on FGFR gene–amplified cancers both in vitro and in vivo ...a ... See full document

... layer and endo- scopic resection can be effectively used as a minimally invasive treatment for the majority ...morphology and poten- tially large dimensions of LST may render complete resection ... See full document

... [11] and according to the recommendations of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement ...2016), and PsychINFO (1887 to 1 ... See full document

... number of research funding agencies now require or request authors to submit the post- print (the article after peer review and acceptance but not the final published article) to a repository ... See full document

... risk factors and peripheral biomarkers for psychotic disorders in the schizophrenia ...two-thirds of the examined associations presented a nominally significant effect, but most of these ... See full document

... trials of patients who underwent vandetanib therapy for different ...treatment of patients with advanced MTC ...treatment of other cancers ...evaluation of its adverse effects because it might ... See full document

... from published literature ...tion and magnitude of the associations may di ffer between methods, the main difference and advantage of pooled analyses is the number of ... See full document