Table 2.

Meta-analyses on neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for esophageal cancer and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) included (+) or not included (–) in their analyses

Meta-analysis
	Urschel and Vasan [9]	Kaklamanos et al. [8]	Fiorica et al. [7]	Malthaner et al. [35]	Greer et al. [16]	Gebski et al. [6]
RCT
Nygaard et al. [36]	+	+	+	+	+	+
Le Prise et al. [37]	+	+	+	+	+	+
Apinop et al. [15]	+	–	+	+	+	+
Walsh et al. [30]	+	+	+	+	+	+
Bosset et al. [20]	+	+	+	+	+	+
Law 1998a	+	–	–	–	–	–
Urba et al. [29]	+	+	+	+	+	+
Walsh [38]a	+	–	–	–	–	–
Burmeister et al. [21]	+a	–	–	–	–	+a
Lee et al. [26]	–	–	–	–	–	+
Tepper et al. [24]	–	–	–	–	–	+
Walsh [32]b	–	–	–	–	–	+

^aAbstract

^bUnpublished thesis