Review Article
Prognostic Role of the Circulating Tumor Cells Detected by Cytological Methods in Gastric Cancer: A Meta-Analysis
Table 4
Sensitivity analyses for data during chemotherapy samples.
| Study omitted | OS | PS | HR | 95% CI | (%) | | HR | 95% CI | (%) | |
| Li et al. 2016 [10] | 5.37 | 2.52–11.45 | 0.0 | 0.680 | 7.54 | 1.87–30.38 | 74.9 | 0.046 | Kubisch et al. 2015 [15] | 4.05 | 2.50–6.55 | 0.0 | 0.734 | 6.00 | 1.00–35.92 | 88.5 | 0.003 | Matsusaka et al. 2010 [19] | 4.24 | 2.57–6.99 | 0.0 | 0.435 | 2.86 | 1.80–4.55 | 0.0 | 0.441 |
| Combined | 4.33 | 2.77–6.76 | 0.0 | 0.725 | 4.94 | 1.83–13.28 | 77.0 | 0.013 |
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The superscript “” refers to heterogeneity.
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