Table 1.
Detailed search terms used from PubMed, Cochrane Library, and EMBASE.
| Database | Keywords | Total studies extracted |
|---|---|---|
| PubMed | (“prognosis" [MeSH Terms] OR “prognosis" [All Fields] OR “prognoses" [All Fields] OR (“outcome" [All Fields] OR “outcomes" [All Fields])) AND (“colorectal neoplasms" [MeSH Terms] OR (“colorectal" [All Fields] AND “neoplasms" [All Fields]) OR “colorectal neoplasms" [All Fields] OR (“colorectal" [All Fields] AND “cancer" [All Fields]) OR “colorectal cancer" [All Fields] OR (“colorectal neoplasms" [MeSH Terms] OR (“colorectal" [All Fields] AND “neoplasms" [All Fields]) OR “colorectal neoplasms" [All Fields] OR (“colorectal" [All Fields] AND “carcinoma" [All Fields]) OR “colorectal carcinoma" [All Fields])) AND (“metastasi" [All Fields] OR “neoplasm metastasis" [MeSH Terms] OR (“neoplasm" [All Fields] AND “metastasis" [All Fields]) OR “neoplasm metastasis" [All Fields] OR “metastasis" [All Fields] OR (“metastasation" [All Fields] OR “metastasic" [All Fields] OR “metastasing" [All Fields] OR “metastasize" [All Fields] OR “metastasized" [All Fields] OR “metastasizes" [All Fields] OR “metastasizing" [All Fields] OR “metastasization" [All Fields] OR “metastasizes" [All Fields] OR “metastasizing" [All Fields] OR “neoplasm metastasis" [MeSH Terms] OR (“neoplasm" [All Fields] AND “metastasis" [All Fields]) OR “neoplasm metastasis" [All Fields] OR “metastase" [All Fields] OR “metastases" [All Fields] OR “metastasize" [All Fields] OR “metastasized" [All Fields])) AND (“COX-2" [All Fields] OR (“cyclooxygenase 2" [MeSH Terms] OR “cyclooxygenase 2" [All Fields])) | 113 |
| Cochrane | prognosis OR outcome AND Colorectal cancer OR colorectal carcinoma AND Metastasis OR metastases AND COX-2 OR cyclooxygenase-2 | 287 |
| EMBASE | (((‘prognosis'/exp OR prognosis OR ‘outcome'/exp OR outcome) AND (‘colorectal cancer'/exp OR ‘colorectal cancer’ OR (colorectal AND (‘cancer'/exp OR cancer))) OR ‘colorectal carcinoma'/exp OR ‘colorectal carcinoma’ OR (colorectal AND (‘carcinoma'/exp OR carcinoma))) AND (‘metastasis'/exp OR metastasis) OR 'metastases'/exp OR metastases) AND ‘cox 2′ OR ‘cyclooxygenase 2'/exp OR ‘cyclooxygenase 2′ AND [embase]/lim NOT ([embase]/lim AND [medline]/lim) AND ‘article'/it | 7920 |