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Table 4 Efficacy of IL-2 in treating MPE

From: Thoracic injection of low-dose interleukin-2 as an adjuvant therapy improves the control of the malignant pleural effusions: a systematic review and meta-analysis base on Chinese patients

Study

Study size (N)

Study design

Efficacy of therapy

Improvement of QOL (N; %)

Group 1

Group 2

Group 1

Group 2

Group 1

Group 2

Group 1

Group 2

CR

PR

SD

PD

CR

PR

SD

PD

N

%

N

%

Changjie H 2001 [15]

30

30

Cisplatin+IL-2

Cisplatin

16

10

4

6

8

16

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

Xiuzhi Y 2001 [16]

40

20

Cisplatin+IL-2

Cisplatin

17

19

5

8

7

5

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

Zhuo S 2004 [17]

32

30

Cisplatin+IL-2

Cisplatin

14

12

4

2

5

10

6

9

20

63

11

37

Junyan W 2005 [18]

48

34

Cisplatin+IL-2

Cisplatin

25

14

9

12

8

14

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

Haiying X 2009 [19]

35

28

Cisplatin+IL-2

Cisplatin

10

18

7

3

12

13

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

Xiaoxia H 2009 [20]

37

35

Cisplatin+IL-2

Cisplatin

15

16

3

3

8

11

7

9

29

78.3

19

54.3

Lizheng C 2009 [21]

46

40

Cisplatin+IL-2

Cisplatin

26

13

7

13

10

17

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

Jinguang C 2009 [22]

31

31

Cisplatin+IL-2

Cisplatin

12

17

2

7

13

11

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

Ā 

Junfeng W 2010 [23]

41

41

Cisplatin+IL-2

Cisplatin

29

4

3

5

7

15

3

16

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

Jingping Z 2010 [24]

63

61

Cisplatin+IL-2

Cisplatin

25

30

5

3

12

22

4

23

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

Cheng X 2010 [25]

41

41

Cisplatin+IL-2

Cisplatin

21

17

3

13

8

20

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

Fang S 2011 [26]

30

30

Cisplatin+IL-2

Cisplatin

9

17

4

7

14

9

26

86.7

24

80

Xueling L 2011 [27]

34

34

Cisplatin+IL-2

Cisplatin

19

11

4

8

10

16

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

Yan Q 2011 [28]

41

35

Cisplatin+IL-2

Cisplatin

12

24

3

2

6

12

4

13

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

Li J 2013 [29]

38

35

Cisplatin+IL-2

Cisplatin

12

13

13

4

11

20

27

71.1

17

48.6

Lijie H 2014 [30]

30

30

Cisplatin+IL-2

Cisplatin

12

13

5

7

10

13

26

86.7

19

63.3

Miao H 2016 [31]

31

30

Cisplatin+IL-2

Cisplatin

11

15

5

7

10

13

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

Baohua Y 2017 [32]

33

33

Cisplatin+IL-2

Cisplatin

11

18

3

1

8

14

6

5

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

ā€“

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