Table 1. Basic characteristics of all qualified studies.
Study | Region | Cancer | Sample size | Gender | Specimen | Method | Survival analysis | Outcome | Cut-off | Follow-up (months) | NOS | |
F | M | |||||||||||
Peng et al. 2014 | China | PC | 304 | 136 | 168 | tissue | qRT-PCR | Multivariate/Univariable | OS | mean | 36 | 8 |
Yang et al. 2015 | Korea | HCC | 240 | tissue | beadchip | Multivariate/Univariable | OS/DFS | median | 120 | 9 | ||
Li et al. 2015 | China | HCC | 66 | 13 | 53 | plasma | qRT-PCR | median | 6 | |||
Li et al. 2016 | China | HCC | 38 | 9 | 29 | tissue | qRT-PCR | Kaplan-Meier curve | OS | mean | 60 | 7 |
Jin et al. 2016 | China | GC | 100 | 35 | 65 | serum | qRT-PCR | Kaplan-Meier curve | OS | median | 36 | 7 |
Yang et al. 2016 | China | CRC | 35 | tissue | qRT-PCR | Kaplan-Meier curve | OS | mean | 120 | 6 | ||
Zhang et al. 2016 | China | GC | 42 | plasma | qRT-PCR | Kaplan-Meier curve | OS | mean | 60 | 8 | ||
Sonohara et al. 2017 | Japan | HCC | 158 | 26 | 132 | tissue | qRT-PCR | Kaplan-Meier curve | OS/RFS | mean | 120 | 8 |
Zhang et al. 2018 | China | CA | 50 | 27 | 23 | tissue | qRT-PCR | median | 6 | |||
Dong et al. 2019 | China | CC | 67 | 28 | 39 | tissue | qRT-PCR | Kaplan-Meier curve | OS | mean | 60 | 7 |
Oehme et al. 2019 | Germany | CRC | 52 | 19 | 33 | serum exosome | qRT-PCR | Kaplan-Meier curve | OS | median | 100 | 6 |
Cao et al. 2019 | China | HCC | 30 | 21 | 9 | tissue, serum exosome | qRT-PCR | mean | 6 | |||
Liu et al. 2020 | China | GC | 116 | 40 | 76 | tissue | qRT-PCR | median | 7 | |||
Ou et al. 2020 | China | PC | 60 | 17 | 43 | serum | qRT-PCR | Multivariate/Univariable | OS | median | 60 | 9 |
PC, pancreatic cancer; HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; GC, gastric cancer; CRC, colorectal cancer; CC, colon cancer; CA, colon adenocarcinoma; F, female; M, male; OS, overall survival; DFS, disease-free survival; RFS, recurrence-free survival.