Table 1.
Search strategy followed in the search engine PubMed on 9th September 2021.
| Search terms | Hits | |
|---|---|---|
| Restrictions | Humans | |
| Full-text | ||
| English | ||
| Adult | ||
| From 01/01/2000 | ||
| Malignancy | ||
| #1 | “Cancer” [Title/Abstract] OR “Leukemia” [Title/Abstract] OR “Lymphoma” [Title/Abstract] OR “Myeloma” [Title/Abstract] OR “Leukaemia” [Title/Abstract] OR “Carcinoma” [Title/Abstract] OR “Neoplasm” [Title/Abstract] OR “Malignant tumor” [Title/Abstract] OR “Malignant tumour” [Title/Abstract] | 605,152 |
| #2 | “Neoplasms” [Mesh] | 816,183 |
| #3 | #1 AND #2 | 557,416 |
| #4 | “cancer risk” [Title/Abstract] | 639,508 |
| #5 | “risk*” [Title/Abstract] | |
| #6 | #4 OR #5 | 859,604 |
| #7 | #3 AND #6 | 146,542 |
| Immunoglobulin | ||
| #8 | “Immunoglobulin*” [Title/Abstract] OR “Serum Immunoglobulin*” [Title/Abstract] OR “serum Ig*” [Title/Abstract] OR “Antibod*” [Title/Abstract] OR “Autoantibod*” [Title/Abstract] OR “IgG” [Title/Abstract] OR “IgE” [Title/Abstract] OR “IgM” [Title/Abstract] OR “IgA” [Title/Abstract] OR “IgD” [Title/Abstract] | 136,508 |
| #9 | #7 AND #8 | 3,874 |
| Exclusions | ||
| #10 | ((“Therapeutics” [Mesh]) OR “Pharmacology” [Mesh]) OR “Therapeutic Uses” [Mesh] OR “Treatment” [Title/Abstract] | 1,812,442 |
| #11 | #9 NOT #10 | 2,126 |