Lung cancer in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are many epidemiological pieces of evidence that show IPF patients have the highest risk of lung cancer. We conducted a systematic review of all published data to define the characteristics of lung cancer that develops in IPF by performing a meta-analysis.

Method

This study was performed based on the PRISMA guideline. Documents gathered by searching through the Web of Sciences, Scopus, PubMed/Medline, OVID, and COCHRANE databases which published before 03/25/2018 that related to lung cancer in IPFs' patients. Articles were searched using standard keywords as well as Mesh and Mesh Entry and all probabilistic combinations of words using Boolean operators. Data searching, extracting and quality appraising were done by two researchers, independently. At last, Ra

SUBMITTER: JafariNezhad A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6095562 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature