Review Article

Clinicopathological and Prognostic Significance of CBX3 Expression in Human Cancer: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Table 1

Characteristics of included studies in the meta-analysis.

StudyYearCountryCancer typeCase no.Male/femaleDetection methodCutoff valueIncreased CBX3 (%)HR for OS (U)HR for OS (M)NOS. (scores)

Zhong et al.2019ChinaHCC35434/320IHCYouden’s index196 (55.4%)1.371.389
Zhang et al.2018ChinaTSCC12681/45IHC77 (61.1%)2.972.469
Zhang et al.2018ChinaTSCC9858/40IHC42 (42.9%)3.562.978
Xu et al.2018ChinaCRC3017/13IHC15 (50.0%)NANA9
Alam et al.2018AmericaLUAD7313/60IHC24 (32.8%)1.67NA8
Chang et al.2017ChinaPCa6262/0IHCMean34 (54.8%)1.533.77
Zhu et al.2017ChinaRCC521NAIHCNA259 (49.7)1.48NA6
Liu et al.2015ChinaCRC178104/74IHC103 (61.2%)1.71NA9
Deng et al.2014ChinaBLCA6212/50IHC30 (48.4%)7.054.19
Zhou et al.2014ChinaNSCLC10885/23IHC30 (27.8%)1.662.139
Wang et al.2014ChinaCESC700/70IHC42 (60.0%)NANA7

Abbreviations: IHC: immunohistochemistry; OS: overall survival; NOS: Newcastle-Ottawa Scale; U: univariate analysis; M: multivariate analysis; NA: not available; HCC: hepatocellular carcinoma; TSCC: tongue squamous cell carcinoma; CRC: colorectal cancer; LUAD: lung adenocarcinoma; PCa: prostate cancer; RCC: renal carcinoma; BLCA: bladder urothelial carcinoma; NSCLC: non-small-cell lung cancer; CESC: cervical cancer. The HR values were extracted by the Engauge Digitizer 4.1 Software.