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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of included studies

From: The optimal time of starting adjuvant chemotherapy after curative surgery in patients with colorectal cancer

Author, Year

Data set

N(M/F)

Site, Stage

Chemotherapy

Endpoint

SQa

Chau, 2005 [15]

Multicenter, UK

801(431/370)

CRC, stage II/III

5FU/LV, 5FU (continuous)

OS

4

Andre, 2007 [16]

Multicenter, France

905 (489/416)

Colon, stage II/III

LV/5FU2, FU + LV

OS,DFS

4

Berglund, 2008 [17]

Norway and Denmark

231(125/106)

Colon, stage III

/

OS

5

Owens, 2009 [19]

MCR, US

3006(1363/1643)

Colon, stage II/III

/

OS

6

Cheung, 2009 [18]

SEER-Medicare, US

6059(3147/2912)

Rectum, stage II/III

/

OS,DFS

5

Ahmed, 2010 [20]

Multicenter,Canada

663 (387/276)

Colon, III, Rectal II, III

5FU based

OS,DFS

7

Bayraktar, 2011 [21]

Multicenter,US

186(72/114)

Colon, stage II/III

5FU based

OS,RFS

8

Czaykowski, 2011 [22]

Multicenter,Canada

345(181/164)

Colon, stage III

5FU/LV

OS,RFS

7

Lima, 2011 [23]

ACR,Canada

1053 (545/508)

Colon, stage III

5FU based

OS

5

Kang, 2013 [24]

Korea

159 (73/86)

CRC, stage III

5FU based

OS,RFS

6

Tevis, 2013 [25]

UWHC, US

355(206/149)

Rectum, stage I-IV

/

OS, LR

7

Yu, 2013 [26]

US

102(45/57)

Colon, stage III

FOLFOX/Xeloda

RFS

5

Day, 2013 [27]

UK

209(118/91)

CRC, Duke A-C

/

OS

7

Tsai, 2013 [40]

Taiwan

1054 (528/526)

CRC, stage III

5-FU-based

OS, CSS

6

Xu, 2014 [28]

SEER-Medicare, US

4209(1954/2225)

Colon, stage II

/

OS, CSS

5

Bos, 2015 [29]

NCR, Netherlands

6620(3530/3090)

Colon, stage III

/

OS

6

Jeong, 2015 [30]

Korea

424(246/178)

Colon, stage II/III

FOLFOX4/FL

DFS

8

Jeong, 2015 [31]

Korea

133(62/71)

Colon, stage III

5FU based

OS,DFS

7

Kim, 2015 [32]

Korea

750(475/275)

CRC, stage II/III

5FU based

OS,RFS

6

Klein, 2015 [33]

DCCG, Denmark

1827(952/875)

Colon, stage III

NR

OS

4

Nachiappan, 2015 [34]

HES, UK

18,306(9889/8417)

Colon, NR

NR

OS

7

Peixoto, 2015 [35]

BCCA, Canada

635(329/306)

Colon, stage III

Oxa-based

RFS, CSS

7

Santos, 2016 [12]

Multicenter, Brazil

1306(643/663)

CRC, stage II/III

NR

OS,DFS

7

Sun, 2016 [9]

NCDB, US

7794(3722/4072)

Colon, stage II/III

NR

OS

6

Kim, 2017 [36]

Multicenter, Korea

5535(3187/2348)

Colon, stage II/III

5FU/Oxa-based

OS

7

Becerra, 2017 [39]

NYSCR, US

1133 (498/635)

Colon, stage III

NR

CSS, OS

7

Gao, 2018 [10]

SEER-Medicare, US

9722(NR)

Colon, stage III

5FU based

OS

4

Turner, 2018 [11]

NCDB, US

51,250 (25,275/25975)

Colon, stage III

NR

OS

5

Choi, 2022 [37]

HIRA, Korea

45,592 (27,148/18444)

CRC, stage II/III

5FU based

OS

6

Farzaneh, 2023 [38]

NCDB, US

8722 (5012/3710)

Rectum, stage II/III

NR

OS

6

  1. Abbreviations: ACR Alberta Cancer Registry, BCCA British Columbia Cancer Agency, CCS Cancer specific-survival, CRC Colorectal cancer, DCCG Danish Colorectal Cancer Group, F Female, DFS Disease-free survival, HES Hospital Episode Statistics, HR Hazard ratio, M Male, MCR Massachusetts Cancer Registry, N Number of patients, NCDB National Cancer Data Base, NCR Netherlands Cancer Registry, HIRA Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service Database, NYSCR New York State Cancer Registry, NR Not report, OS Overall survival, RFS Relapse-free survival, SEER Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results, SQ Score of study quality, UWHC University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics
  2. a Study quality was judged based on the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale