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A systematic literature search yielded a total of 153 articles related to the relationship between CTCs and lung cancer. After the screening of titles, abstracts and full texts, 123 articles were excluded for reasons detailed in the main text. A meta-analysis was then performed on 30 studies to assess the clinicopathological and prognostic significance of CTCs in patients with lung cancer.
