The impact of E-cadherin expression on non-small cell lung cancer survival: a meta-analysis
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...Recently, E-cadherin was also reported to be related with gastric cancer or non-small cell lung cancer among Asians but not Europeans [47,48]....
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...We found that vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) (37), E-cadherin (38) and matrix metalloproteinase 2 (39) might be poor prognostic factor in NSCLC, COX-2 (40) might be poor prognostic factor for stage I NSCLC, the ground glass opacity (GGO) area (41) had a favorable prognostic value of overall survival and relapse-free survival in small lung adenocarcinoma....
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...Despite tremendous efforts to reduce deaths due to lung cancer, the prognosis of lung cancer is still poor, with an approximate 5-year survival rate of 15 % [2]....
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...Other independent prognostic factors include performance status, age, and weight loss of more than 10 % [4, 5]....
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...Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death both in the USA and around the world [1]....
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...In our meta-analysis, when HR and CI were not described in the reports, they were extracted from the data according to the method of Parmar [22]....
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...When not given explicitly in an article, they were calculated from available numerical data in the articles using methods reported by Parmar [22]....
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