Table 4.
Available meta-analyses assessing temporary ovarian suppression with GnRHa during chemotherapy in patients with malignancies other than breast cancer or not restricted to only breast cancer trials.
Authors | Year | Disease | No. of Included Studies (no. of RCTs) |
No. of Patients |
Overall Results |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Clowse et. al. [93] | 2009 | Autoimmune diseases, HL and NHL | 9 (2) | 366 | Protection for POI |
Ben-Aharon et al. [94] | 2010 | Autoimmune diseases, breast cancer, HL and NHL | 16 (5) | 681 | Protection for POI (not in RCTs) |
Kim et al. [95] | 2010 | Autoimmune diseases, breast cancer, HL and NHL | 11 (3) | 654 | Protection for POI |
Bedaiwy et al. [96] | 2011 | Breast cancer, ovarian cancer and HL | 6 (6) | 340 | Protection for POI (not for pregnancy) |
Zhang et al. [97] | 2013 | HL and NHL | 7 (3) | 434 | Protection for POI (not for pregnancy) |
Sun et al. [98] | 2014 | Breast cancer, ovarian cancer and HL | 8 (8) | 621 | Protection for POI (not for pregnancy) |
Del Mastro et al. [99] | 2014 | Breast cancer, ovarian cancer, HL and NHL | 9 (9) | 765 | Protection for POI |
Elgindy et al. [59] | 2015 | Breast cancer, ovarian cancer, HL and NHL | 10 (10) | 907 | No protection |
Senra et al. [100] | 2018 | Breast cancer, HL and NHL | 13 (13) | 1208 | Protection for POI (also for pregnancy) |
Hickman et al. [101] | 2018 | Breast cancer, ovarian cancer, HL and NHL | 10 (10) | 1051 | Protection for POI |
Sofiyeva et al. [102] | 2019 | Autoimmune diseases, breast cancer, HL and NHL | 18 (11) | 1043 | Protection for POI |
Zheng et al. [103] | 2019 | Breast cancer, HL and NHL | 12 (12) | 1413 | Protection for POI (not for pregnancy) |
Chen et al. [104] | 2019 | Breast cancer, ovarian cancer and HL | 12 (12) | 1369 | Protection for POI (not for pregnancy) |
Luong et al. [105] | 2020 | Autoimmune diseases | 3 (1) | 93 | Protection for POI |
Abbreviations: POI, premature ovarian insufficiency; GnRHa, gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist; HL, Hodgkin lymphoma; NHL, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.