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SynthesisMedicine2018

Association between obesity with disease-free survival and overall survival in triple-negative breast cancer: A meta-analysis.

Lin Mei, Lin He, Yuhua Song, Yang Lv, Lijiu Zhang, Fengxi Hao, Mengmeng Xu

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Synthesis in Medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Lin MeiDepartment of Oncology, The PLA Navy Anqing Hospital, Anqing, Anhui Province. Breast Center B Ward, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong Province Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui Province Department of Anesthesiology Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China.
Lin He
Yuhua Song
Yang Lv
Lijiu Zhang
Fengxi Hao
Mengmeng Xu

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo investigate the relationship between obesity and disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) of triple-negative breast cancer.

methodsCitations were searched in PubMed, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science. Random effect model meta-analysis was conducted by using Revman software version 5.0, and publication bias was evaluated by creating Egger regression with STATA software version 12.

resultsNine studies (4412 patients) were included for DFS meta-analysis, 8 studies (4392 patients) include for OS meta-analysis. There were no statistical significances between obesity with DFS (P = .60) and OS (P = .71) in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients.

conclusionObesity has no impact on DFS and OS in patients with TNBC.

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Disease-Free SurvivalHumansObesityRisk FactorsTriple Negative Breast Neoplasms

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PMID29742734
PMCPMC5959383

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