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Fig. 3 | BMC Cancer

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From: Positive H. pylori status predicts better prognosis of non-cardiac gastric cancer patients: results from cohort study and meta-analysis

Fig. 3

Flow chart of the screening procedure for studies included in the meta-analysis. No terms on “H. pylori”: studies without relative terms of “H. pylori”; No sufficient: no sufficient data to transform into hazards ratio estimate. Other: studies were excluded by one of the reasons below: (1) some of the subjects were gastric lymphoma; (2) data were from the public databases like TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas); (3) the study did not report the relationship of H. pylori with a prognosis of gastric cancer

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