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ReviewEXCLI journal2020

The survival rate of hepatocellular carcinoma in Asian countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Soheil Hassanipour, Mouhebat Vali, Saber Gaffari-Fam, Hossein-Ali Nikbakht, Elham Abdzadeh, Farahnaz Joukar, Akram Pourshams, Afshin Shafaghi, Mahdi Malakoutikhah, Morteza Arab-Zozani and 2 more

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Review in EXCLI journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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47 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Soheil HassanipourGI Cancer Screening and Prevention Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
Mouhebat ValiStudent Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Saber Gaffari-FamRoad Traffic Injury Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Hossein-Ali NikbakhtSocial Determinants of Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran.
Elham AbdzadehGI Cancer Screening and Prevention Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
Farahnaz JoukarGastrointestinal and Liver Diseases Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
Akram PourshamsGastrointestinal and Liver Diseases Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
Afshin ShafaghiCaspian Digestive Disease Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
Mahdi MalakoutikhahDepartment of Occupational Health, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran.
Morteza Arab-ZozaniSocial Determinants of Health Research Center, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.
Hamid SalehiniyaSocial Determinants of Health Research Center, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.
Fariborz Mansour-GhanaeiGI Cancer Screening and Prevention Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatocellular carcinoma or Liver cancer (LC) is the sixth most common cancer and the fourth cause of death worldwide in 2018. There has not been a comprehensive study on the survival rate of patients with LC in Asia yet. Therefore, the present study was conducted to evaluate the survival rate of patients with LC in Asian countries. The methodology of the present study is based on the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis) statement. The researchers searched five international databases including Medline/PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Web of Knowledge and ProQuest until July 1, 2018. We also searched Google Scholar for detecting grey literature. The Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Form was used to evaluate the quality of selected papers. A total of 1425 titles were retrieved. 63 studies met the inclusion criteria. Based on the random-effect model one-year, three-year and five-year survival rate of LC were 34.8 % (95 % CI; 30.3-39.3), 19 % (95 % CI ; 18.2-21.8) and 18.1 % (95 % CI ;16.1-20.1) respectively. According to the results of our study, the LC survival rate in Asian countries is relatively lower than in Europe and North America.

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Asiahepatocellular carcinomameta-analysissurvival ratesystematic review

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PMCPMC7003639

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