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Table 4 Median progression free 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 progression free survival time(months)

Median ratio

pvalue

 

TS +/high

TS -/low

  

Bepler et al. [6]

20.7

21

1.01

0.187

Chang et al. [29]

1.3

2.4

1.85

0.407

Chen et al. [21]

3.4

4.8

1.41

0.01

Sun et al. [17]

2

4.1

2.05

0.001

Igawa et al. [30]

1.6

5.8

3.63

0.03

Pool

5.8

7.6

1.31

(95% CI 0.43-2.19)

0.13

  1. Patients with +/high expression of TS who received pemetrexed-based chemotherapy had a median progression free survival time of 5.8 months; patients with -/low expressionof TS had a median progression free survival time of 7.6 months. Although there was a trend that TS -/low predicted better progression free survival time, the difference did not reached statistical significance (p = 0.13).