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. 2020 Sep 16;26(2):e251–e260. doi: 10.1634/theoncologist.2020-0306

Table 3.

Meta‐analyses comparing summary 10‐year DSS of American Joint Committee on Cancer 7th and 8th edition staging for differentiated thyroid cancer

Stage	7th edition		8th edition
Stage	Pooled DSS (95% CI)	I² (%)	Pooled DSS (95% CI)	I² (%)
I	99.39 (98.85–99.93)	57.1	99.28 (98.67–99.90)	73.5 ^a
II	98.09 (96.59–99.60)	0.0	88.58 (82.73–94.85)	70.1
III	96.84 (94.12–99.64)	67.7 ^a	70.45 (59.13–83.93)	0.0
IV	72.59 (63.53–82.94)	79.9 ^a	65.49 (57.19–75.00)	66.8 ^a

^{^a}

p < .05.

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; DSS, disease‐specific survival.