Table 2.
Search strategy for Embase.com (16 October 2019)
| Search | Query | Items found |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | ‘rectum tumor’/de OR ‘rectum cancer’/de OR ‘rectum carcinoma’/exp OR ((‘neoplasm’/exp OR carcinoma*:ti,ab,kw OR neoplas*:ti,ab,kw OR tumour*:ti,ab,kw OR sarcoma*:ti,ab,kw OR adenocarcin*:ti,ab,kw OR tumor*:ti,ab,kw OR cancer*:ti,ab,kw OR oncolog*:ti,ab,kw OR malignan*:ti,ab,kw OR metasta*:ti,ab,kw OR carcinogen*:ti,ab,kw OR oncogene*:ti,ab,kw OR paraneoplastic:ti,ab,kw OR plasmacytoma*:ti,ab,kw OR carcinosarcoma*:ti,ab,kw) AND (‘rectum’/exp OR rectal*:ti,ab,kw OR rectum:ti,ab,kw)) | 114,481 |
| #2 | ‘mesorectum’/exp OR ‘mesorectal fascia’/exp OR mesorect*:ti,ab,kw | 6599 |
| #3 | ‘metastasis’/exp OR ‘tumor invasion’/de OR ‘tumor seeding’/exp OR metast*:ti,ab,kw OR micrometast*:ti,ab,kw OR seeding*:ti,ab,kw OR circulat*:ti,ab,kw OR spread*:ti,ab,kw | 1,651,540 |
| #4 | #1 AND #2 AND #3 | 2038 |
| #5 | #4 AND (‘conference abstract’/it OR ‘conference paper’/it OR ‘conference review’/it) | 667 |
| #6 | #4 NOT #5 | 1371 |