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A clinical meta-analysis example of the ascending pattern in the stepwise-hierarchical method based on our previous meta-analysis evaluating the benefits of adjuvant radiochemotherapy after D2 gastrectomy as compared to chemotherapy alone [21]. The forest plots are newly drawn from the raw data obtained by the authors. ES: effect size; CRT: chemoradiotherapy.
