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ArticleInternational journal of clinical and experimental medicine2015

Prognostic significance of reduced immunohistochemical expression of E-cadherin in endometrial cancer-results of a meta-analysis.

Xing Zheng, Xue-Lian Du, Tao Jiang

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Article in International journal of clinical and experimental medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Xing ZhengDepartment of Gynecologic Oncology, Shandong Cancer Hospital and InstituteJinan, Shandong, P. R. China; School of Medicine and Life Science, University of Jinan-Shandong Academy of Medical ScienceJinan, Shandong, P. R. China.
Xue-Lian DuDepartment of Gynecologic Oncology, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute Jinan, Shandong, P. R. China.
Tao JiangDepartment of Gynecologic Oncology, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute Jinan, Shandong, P. R. China.

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objectivePrevious studies which investigated the relationship between reduced E-cadherin and prognosis of endometrial cancer were ambiguous and conflicting. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between reduced expression of E-cadherin and endometrial cancer by meta-analysis approach.

methodAfterPubmed and Embasewere deliberately searched via the internet, 8 pieces of literaturewere totally included in final meta-analysis. After the data had been abstracted, the pulled odds ratio (OR) and hazard ratio (HR) were calculated by STATA with random or fixed effect model depending on their heterogeneity. The publication bias of included literature were tested by Begg's funnel plot and Egger's test.

resultsThe pulled data showed that the reduced expression of E-cadherin was significantly associated with overall survival (OS), HR=2.42, 95% CI: 1.50-3.89. The clinical parameters such as lymph node metastasis (LNM), myometrial invasion (MI), International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage, histological type and pathological type were also significantly associated with reduced expression of E-cadherin. The results of publication biasshowed there were no significant publication bias.

conclusionEndometrial cancer patients with reduced expression of E-cadherin may have a poorer prognosis than those with normal or higher expression of E-cadherin.

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E-cadherinendometrial cancerprognostic factorsurvival

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PMCPMC4694383

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