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SynthesisTumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine2015

Prognostic value of CD133 expression in cancer patients treated with chemoradiotherapy: a meta-analysis.

Jin-Hai Zhai, Wen-Chao Gu, Xiao-Lin Xu, Jiang Wu, Xue-Jun Hu, Ke-Zhu Hou

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Synthesis in Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 3 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jin-Hai ZhaiGI Medicine, Wuxi TCM Hospital, Wuxi, 214000, People's Republic of China.
Wen-Chao Gu
Xiao-Lin Xu
Jiang Wu
Xue-Jun Hu
Ke-Zhu Hou
Wuxi Taihu Hospital · CNFudan University · CNPudong New Area People's Hospital · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many studies evaluated the correlations of CD133 expression with the clinical outcomes in patients treated with chemoradiotherapy (CRT) but yielded controversial results. This meta-analysis was performed to identify the impacts of CD133 expression on the prognosis of cancer patients treated with CRT. Electronic databases updated up to March 2014 were searched to find relevant studies. Relevant literatures without any language restrictions were searched via electronic databases as follows: Web of Science (1945 ~ 2013), the Cochrane Library Database (Issue 12, 2013), PubMed (1966 ~ 2013), EMBASE (1980 ~ 2013), CINAHL (1982 ~ 2013), and the Chinese Biomedical Database (CBM) (1982 ~ 2013). STATA software was used for the current meta-analysis. Hazard ratios (HR) and its corresponding 95% confidence interval (95% CI) were calculated. Six studies were identified with a total of 470 cancer patients treated with CRT. The meta-analysis results showed that CD133-positive patients had poorer overall survival (OS) than that of CD133-negative patients (HR = 2.13, 95% CI = 1.20 ~ 3.07, P < 0.001). Furthermore, CD133-positive patients displayed shorter disease-free survival (DFS) than that of CD133-negative patients (HR = 1.74, 95% CI = 0.08 ~ 3.40, P = 0.039). Ethnicity-stratified analysis indicated that CD133 expression positively correlated with shorter OS among the Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish populations (all P < 0.05). In conclusion, our findings suggest that CD133 expression may be positively correlated with poorer prognosis in cancer patients treated with CRT.

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PrognosisAC133 AntigenAntigens, CDAsian PeopleBiomarkers, TumorDisease-Free SurvivalGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGlycoproteinsHumansNeoplasmsPeptidesAC133 AntigenAntigens, CDBiomarkers, TumorGlycoproteinsPeptidesPROM1 protein, human

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