Trends in published meta-analyses in cancer research, 2008–2013

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• 作者：Ximena V. Qadir ; Mindy Clyne ; Tram Kim Lam ; Muin J. Khoury…
• 关键词：Meta ; analysis ; Database ; Epidemiology ; Clinical trials
• 刊名：Cancer Causes & Control
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：28
• 期：1
• 页码：5-12
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Cancer Research; Biomedicine, general; Oncology; Public Health; Epidemiology; Hematology;
• 出版者：Springer International Publishing
• ISSN：1573-7225
• 卷排序：28

文摘

In order to capture trends in the contribution of epidemiology to cancer research, we describe an online meta-analysis database resource for cancer clinical and population research and illustrate trends and descriptive detail of cancer meta-analyses from 2008 through 2013. A total of 4,686 cancer meta-analyses met our inclusion criteria. During this 6-year period, a fivefold increase was observed in the yearly number of meta-analyses. Fifty-six percent of meta-analyses concerned observational studies, mostly of cancer risk, more than half of which were genetic studies. The major cancer sites were breast, colorectal, and digestive. This online database for Cancer Genomics and Epidemiology Navigator will be continuously updated to allow investigators to quickly navigate the meta-analyses emerging from cancer epidemiology studies and cancer clinical trials.