Author | Year | Reasons for exclusion | Histology: no of patients | EGFR overexpression >(%) | EGFR effect on survival |
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EGFR, epidermal growth factor receptor; HR, hazard ratio; Ad, adenocarcinoma; Sq, squamous cell carcinoma; La, large cell carcinoma; Mis, miscellaneous; ND, no data; S, significant; NS, not significant; CFS, cancer free survival. | |||||
Dazzi et al12 | 1989 | No statistical data for extracting HR | Ad: 31 | 49 | NS |
Sq: 97 | |||||
La: 7 | |||||
Mis: 17 | |||||
Rusch et al22 | 1993 | Updated by Rusch et al34 | Sq: 19 | 45 | NS |
Non-sq: 25 | |||||
Volm et al23 | 1993 | Updated by Volm et al37 | Total: 121 | 83 | S |
Giatromanolaki et al13 | 1996 | No statistical data for extracting HR | Ad: 38 | 79 | NS |
Sq: 69 | |||||
Giatromanolaki et al14 | 1996 | No statistical data for extracting HR | Ad: 38 | 79 | NS |
Sq: 69 | |||||
Pfeiffer et al24 | 1996 | Updated by Pfeiffer et al36 | Ad: 59 | 55 | NS |
Sq: 102 | |||||
La: 25 | |||||
Koukourakis et al15 | 1997 | No statistical data for extracting HR | Ad: 38 | ND | NS |
Sq: 69 | |||||
Greatens et al16 | 1998 | No statistical data for extracting HR | Ad: 51 | 65 | NS |
Sq: 44 | |||||
La: 6 | |||||
D’Amico et al17 | 2000 | No statistical data for extracting HR | Ad: 208 | 52 | NS |
Sq: 148 | |||||
La: 52 | |||||
Cox et al25 | 2001 | Updated by Swinson et al48 | Ad: 50 | 56 | NS |
Sq: 105 | |||||
La: 14 | |||||
Volm et al18 | 2002 | No statistical data for extracting HR | Ad: 59 | ND | S |
Sq: 123 | |||||
La: 34 | |||||
Kanematsu et al19 | 2003 | No statistical data for extracting HR | Sq: 14 | 81 | NS |
Non-sq: 22 | |||||
Sasaki et al27 | 2003 | Serum protein measured | Ad: 51 | 34 | NS |
Sq: 42 | |||||
La: 5 | |||||
Mis: 9 | |||||
Brattstrom et al20 | 2004 | No statistical data for extracting HR | Ad: 25 | 30 | NS |
Sq: 22 | |||||
La: 2 | |||||
Mis: 4 | |||||
Gregore et al28 | 2004 | Serum protein measured | Ad: 29 | ND | NS |
Non-ad: 17 | |||||
Jacot et al29 | 2004 | Serum protein measured | Ad: 56 | ND | NS |
Sq: 127 | |||||
La: 38 | |||||
Niemiec et al30 | 2004 | Over- and underexpression compared with medium expression | Sq: 78 | 60 | S |
Swinson et al26 | 2004 | Updated by Swinson et al48 | Ad: 49 | ND | NS |
Sq: 107 | |||||
La: 12 | |||||
Mis: 4 | |||||
Ad: 56 | |||||
Onn et al21 | 2004 | No statistical data for extracting HR | Sq: 40 | 50 | NS |
Mis: 15 |