The relationship between diabetes and colorectal cancer prognosis: A meta-analysis based on the cohort studies.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Though a meta-analysis reported the effect of diabetes on colorectal prognosis in 2013, a series of large-scale long-term cohort studies has comprehensively reported the outcome effect estimates on the relationship between diabetes and colorectal prognosis, and their results were still consistent.

Methods

We carried out an extensive search strategy in multiple databases and conducted a meta-analysis on the effect of diabetes on colorectal prognosis, based on the included 36 cohort studies, which contained 2,299,012 subjects. In order to collect more data, besides conventional methods, we used the professional software to extract survival data from the Kaplan-Meier curves, and analyzed both the 5-year survival rate and survival risk in overall survival, cancer-sp

SUBMITTER: Zhu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5397066 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature