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Table 3 Median overall survival time in the studies

From: The pemetrexed-containing treatments in the non-small cell lung cancer, is -/low thymidylate synthase expression better than +/high thymidylate synthase expression: a meta-analysis

Study

Median survival time(months)

Median ratio

pvalue

 

TS +/high

TS -/low

  

Bepler et al. [6]

27.8

27

0.97

0.272

Chang et al. [30]

6.7

9.5

1.42

0.688

Chen et al. [21]

10

21.4

2.14

0.09

Sun et al. [17]

18.9

22.3

1.18

0.106

Igawa et al. [31]

8.6

14.7

1.71

0.04

Pool

14.4

19.0

1.32(95% CI 0.92-2.72)

0.24

  1. Patients with +/high expression of TS who received pemetrexed-based chemotherapy had a median overall survival time of 14.4 months; patients with -/low expressionof TS had a median overall survival of 19.0 weeks. Although patients with -/low expression of TS perform a longer median overall survival time than those with +/high expression of TS, the difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.24).